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MS Access Forum / Queries / May 2006sum on a column of data in a query?
I have created a Select Query, I have 3 columns of data, I'm able to create calculations on rows, but not columns??? Have you looked into the Totals queries? These are design to aggregate down columns. Regards Jeff Boyce Microsoft Office/Access MVP > I have created a Select Query, I have 3 columns of data, I'm able to > create > calculations on rows, but not columns??? I think that's the problem - aggregate functions work recordwise - not fieldwise - i have same instance of 18 fields need adding together & apart from [field1] + [field2] + [field3], ad nausium - there doesn't seem to be anyway of summing a collection of fields > Have you looked into the Totals queries? These are design to aggregate down > columns. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > create > > calculations on rows, but not columns??? You are describing ... a spreadsheet! A relational database (well-normalized) doesn't use "repeating fields". So you really wouldn't expect to find a function in Access that gives you an easy way to "sum across columns", since that's more a spreadsheet function... Regards Jeff Boyce Microsoft Office/Access MVP >I think that's the problem - aggregate functions work recordwise - not > fieldwise - i have same instance of 18 fields need adding together & apart [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> > create >> > calculations on rows, but not columns??? |
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