select JobNumber, Quantity group by JobNumber;
into cursor Temp1;
nofilter
select sum(Quantity) as Quantity;
from Temp1;
into cursor Temp2
Because of an irregularity (in the code above) in the use of GROUP BY, you may have to change SET ENGINEBEHAVIOUR in newer versions of VFP.
>I have some values I'd like to sum up, but I want to skip any duplicate entries from the sum
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>For instance a table with 2 fields, Jobnumber & quantity. Would have data like this:
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>Jobnumber Quantity
>1 10
>1 10
>2 25
>2 25
>3 1
>4 2
>4 2
>4 2
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>How can I sum the quantity field and come up with a total of 38.
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>this is on a report so I cant do a no duplicates in the table.
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>It would be really nice if I could "Calculate sum(qty) for jobnumer is unique"
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