>>>>>>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
>>>>>Make that a union not a join
>>>>
>>>>Union gives you new row(s). Do you really want to have columns? Could you post a sample of wishful query results.
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>>>The view is to show the amount of a commodity delivered to a warehouse both YTD and today
>>>
>>>Commodity YTD delivered Today delivered
>>>Wheat 99999 11111
>>>
>>>Ian
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>Firstly, excuse me for empty reply. Secondly, what do you have in base table? Do you have multiple commodities? It seems to me that cross-tab query will be part of solution.

Yes there are multiple commoddities. What I think I am wondering is, is it possible to perform the query as follows:

sum(amount) for dtdate < date() in one column and sum(amount) for dtdate = date() in a separate column.