Assuming that you want to sum a field such as Quantity, you could use something like this.

SELECT MyTable.Part_Number, sum(MyTable.Qty) as Qty ;
 FROM MyTable ;
 GROUP BY MyTable.Part_Number ;
 ORDER BY MyTable.Part_Number

The Group by will create one record for each part number.

>In vfp60, Is there a way to SUM alike records with a SELECT statement?
>I have a table with a field called part_number. This table is ORDER BY part_number...There are many records that contain the same
>part_number values and I want to SUM these records so I have
>a DISTINCT on part_number and the part_number values will be totaled and represented in one record for each part_number...any ideas?