Question

I am trying to run a SQL Query in phpmyadmin that will total multiple rows and insert that total into the cell.

The file is sorted by date and then a few other specifics.

I am just having a hard time finding the syntax for it.

Basically I have one column called ‘Points’ and another called ‘Total_Points’

It needs to look like this:

+--------+--------------+
| Points | Total Points |
+--------+--------------+
|   10   |      10      |
|   10   |      20      |
|   10   |      30      |
|   10   |      40      |
+--------+--------------+

And so on and so on.
It seems like there has to be something out there that would do this and I am just missing it

Answer 1

For a running sum you can use “window functions” like this:

create table tbl(ord int, points int);
insert into tbl values(1, 10),(2, 10), (3, 10), (4, 10);

select
    *,
    sum(points) over w total_points
from tbl
window w as (order by ord);

 ord | points | total_points 
-----+--------+--------------
   1 |     10 |           10
   2 |     10 |           20
   3 |     10 |           30
   4 |     10 |           40

I “aggregated” your ORDER BY criteria to be the column ord. You may of course replace it.

Besides of this: You did not specify a concrete database vendor. My example runs on PostgreSQL. Other SQL dialects may be a little different.