Question

I have the following SQL Query:

SELECT porel.refcode, podetail.ponum, SUM(podetail.orderqty * podetail.unitcost) AS Total
FROM podetail
LEFT JOIN porel ON podetail.ponum = porel.ponum
WHERE porel.poline=podetail.poline AND porel.reftype = 'SPEX'
GROUP BY porel.refcode, podetail.ponum
ORDER BY porel.refcode, podetail.ponum

which works fine to bring me a list of ponums and their total values against refcodes.

I now want to add a third column vendor.name. The vendor table has a field vendorid which it shares with the podetail table.

There are multiple podetail records with the same ponum but these will also have matching vendorid‘s.

Could someone advise how I would add in the vendor.name field without returning extra rows?

Answer 1

Heya, Rogue. I wanted to say a little more than fits in a comment, so here.

One more easy diagnostic off the top of my head is this:

SELECT
    porel.refcode,
    podetail.ponum,
    SUM(podetail.orderqty * podetail.unitcost) AS Total,
    podetail.vendorid
FROM
    podetail
    LEFT JOIN porel
    ON podetail.ponum = porel.ponum
WHERE
    porel.poline = podetail.poline 
    AND porel.reftype = 'SPEX' 
GROUP BY
    porel.refcode, 
    podetail.ponum,
    podetail.vendorid
ORDER BY
    refcode, 
    ponum

In here, we don’t join to vendor at all, taking the table completely out of the equation. Instead, we’ll just roll up podetail.vendorids instead.

Can you post the output of this query?