>>I am trying to build a view that totals an amount filed, I wish to have one column total be a YTD total and another column for just a particular day. I have tried using a join but that gives two rows for the result, I need one row with both totals.
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>>TIA
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>>Ian
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>I don't think you can do that with a view. Calculated fields based on other records?
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>But with a cursor you can do it:
>here's one way:
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>nMyYTDTotal = 0
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>SELECT dDate, SUM(amount) AS nTodaysTotal, MyYTD(amount) AS nYTD FROM MyTable WHERE dDate>={01/01/97} ORDER BY dDate, GROUP BY dDate INTO CURSOR _MyTotals
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>FUNC MyYTD(nAmt)
>  nMyYTDTotal = nMyYTDTotal + nAmt
>RETURN nMyYTDTotal
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>HTH

Matt, how many records you expect to get back using SUM()?