Question

I am a student this is homework… I have one table with four columns: Accounts(numbers), balances(money), and two for descriptions. I have to get a grand total of the balances… This VIEW shows the sums of the balance column but I need to total the sums, also. Any help pointing me in the right direction will be appreciated.

CREATE VIEW [account_balance_sums]

AS
    SELECT SUM(balance) AS total,
           SUBSTRING(Account,0,2) AS account_group,


      FROM COA

  GROUP BY account_group

GO

SELECT * FROM [account_balance_sums]

Answer 1

Try totaling them the same way the view creates a total for each account, by using SUM?

SELECT SUM(balance) FROM COA

(Just don’t GROUP BY, so that you get a full total instead of just a per-accountgroup total.)

Alternatively, you could sum the account totals returned from the view:

SELECT SUM(total) FROM [account_balance_sums]