>>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
>
>How about something like:
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>SELECT cCommodity,sum(nAmount) as YTD, sum(iif(dDate=date(),nAmount,0)) as Today FROM YourTable GROUP BY 1
>
>HTH
>Elyse
Elyse,

How about:

nYear = YEAR(DATE())
dToday = DATE()

SELECT cCommodity, SUM(nAmount) AS YTD, 10000-10000 AS today FROM tTable WHERE YEAR(dDate)=nYear ;
UNION ;
(SELECT cCommodity, 0, SUM(nAmount) FROM tTable WHERE dDate=dToday) ;
GROUP BY 1;
INTO ...

John.