Question

I have this MySQL statement which works fine:

SELECT claim_items.item_id, claim_items.quantity*items_rate.rate as per_item
FROM claim_items, items_rate 
WHERE claim_items.claim_id = 1 AND claim_items.item_id = items_rate.items_id

However what I want to do is to get the sum of the per_item field generated in the MySQL statement. Is it possible to do a nested statement to do that? I know I could create a view and then do it, but would prefer to do it in one statement.

Thanks for your help, much appreciated!

Answer 1

If you just want the sum over all rows you can do it like that (using explicit joins for better readability):

SELECT SUM( claim_items.quantity * items_rate.rate )
FROM claim_items
JOIN items_rate ON ( items_rate.items_id = claim_items.item_id )
WHERE claim_items.claim_id = 1