Question

I am having difficulty with this. This query worked fine in calculating the sums until I put the first inner join in. In the table tbl_companies there are multiple entries per company, for example the table could look like this:

priority      company     externalip
1             bla         9.9.9.9
1             bla         3.3.3.3
1             company2    3.56.6.6

In the below query the sum (that calculates As TotalWithoutNew and TotalAllId is doubling when there is more than one entry for the company, and tripling if there is three etc. What I want it to do is simply bring back the priority from the table tbl_companies

SELECT b.company, 
       b.priority, 
       i.concom, 
       Coalesce (SUM(CASE 
                       WHEN c.category_id = '30' THEN 0 
                       ELSE t.logmins 
                     END), 0)       AS totalwithoutnew, 
       Coalesce (SUM(t.logmins), 0) AS totalallid 
FROM   helpdesk3.dbo.inquiry AS i 
       INNER JOIN [Check].[dbo].[tbl_companies] AS b 
         ON i.concom = b.company COLLATE sql_latin1_general_cp1_ci_as 
       INNER JOIN timelog AS t 
         ON t.inquiry_id = i.inquiry_id 
       INNER JOIN prod AS p 
         ON i.prod_id = p.prod_id 
       INNER JOIN category AS c 
         ON p.category_id = c.category_id 
WHERE  ( Datepart(yyyy, escdate) = 2011 ) 
GROUP  BY i.concom, 
          b.company, 
          b.priority 
ORDER  BY totalwithoutnew DESC, 
          b.priority DESC    

Answer 1

You should split the query to avoid multiple results from tbl_companies.

select distinct b.company, 
       b.priority, 
       x.concom, 
       x.totalwithoutnew, 
       x.totalallid 
FROM    (
            SELECT i.concom, 
                   Coalesce (SUM(CASE 
                                   WHEN c.category_id = '30' THEN 0 
                                   ELSE t.logmins 
                                 END), 0)       AS totalwithoutnew, 
                   Coalesce (SUM(t.logmins), 0) AS totalallid 
            FROM   helpdesk3.dbo.inquiry AS i 
                   INNER JOIN timelog AS t 
                     ON t.inquiry_id = i.inquiry_id 
                   INNER JOIN prod AS p 
                     ON i.prod_id = p.prod_id 
                   INNER JOIN category AS c 
                     ON p.category_id = c.category_id 
            WHERE  ( Datepart(yyyy, escdate) = 2011 ) 
            GROUP  BY i.concom 
            ) x
INNER JOIN [Check].[dbo].[tbl_companies] AS b 
          ON x.concom = b.company COLLATE sql_latin1_general_cp1_ci_as 

ORDER  BY x.totalwithoutnew DESC, 
          b.priority DESC