Question

I have a query with a sum in it like this:

SELECT
    Table1.ID, SUM(Table2.[Number1] + Table2.[Number2]) AS SumColumn
FROM         Table1 INNER JOIN
                      Table3 ON Table1.ID = Table3.ID 
                    INNER JOIN
                      Table2 ON Table3.ID = Table2.ID
WHERE     (Table2.[Something] = 'Whatever')

GROUP BY Table1.ID,  Table2.[Number1] , Table2.[Number2]

and it gives me a table like this:

ID  SumColumn
67  1
67  4
70  2
70  6
70  3
70  6
80  5
97  1
97  3

How can I make it give me a table like this, where the SumColumn is summed, grouped by the ID column?

ID   SumColumn
67   5
70   17
80   5
97   4

I cannot GROUP BY SumColumn because I get an error (Invalid column name ‘SumColumn’.) COALESCE doesn’t work either. Thanks in advance.

EDIT:

Just grouping by the ID gives me an error:

[Number1, Number2 and the other column names that I’m selecting] is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.

EDIT 2

No idea why but just grouping by Table.ID now seems to work. Thanks to all who posted the correct answer, I wish I could tick them all!

Answer 1

Have you tried:

SELECT
    Table1.ID, SUM(Table2.[Number1] + Table2.[Number2]) AS SumColumn
FROM         Table1 INNER JOIN
                      Table3 ON Table1.ID = Table3.ID 
                    INNER JOIN
                      Table2 ON Table3.ID = Table2.ID
WHERE     (Table2.[Something] = 'Whatever')
GROUP BY Table1.ID

I can’t see why the above wouldn’t work, unless you are not aliasing tables appropriately in the query, which is more of a syntax than logic mistake, but ‘wrong’ from the SQL engine’s perspective regardless. Whenever SQL code doesn’t work for me, I simplify ad nauseam my query until the reason for it failing becomes apparent. In that vein, I’d try:

SELECT ID, SUM(sumCol) as SumColumn
FROM (
    SELECT
        Table1.ID, (Table2.[Number1] + Table2.[Number2]) AS sumCol
    FROM         Table1 INNER JOIN
                          Table3 ON Table1.ID = Table3.ID 
                        INNER JOIN
                          Table2 ON Table3.ID = Table2.ID
    WHERE     (Table2.[Something] = 'Whatever')
)
GROUP BY Table1.ID

… and I’d allow any errors that show up from the following (and nested query!) to inform my further investigation.