>>>>>>>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
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>>>>>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
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>>>>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.
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>Yes there are multiple commoddities. What I think I am wondering is, is it possible to perform the query as follows:
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>sum(amount) for dtdate < date() in one column and sum(amount) for dtdate = date() in a separate column.

Don't rush, please! If you have multiple commodities then, I assume, you want to get many records (one for each commodity) in resulting cursor. Is this right?