Question

I have two tables.

Table 1: Actuals

A table with all the employess and how many hours they have worked in a given month

|  ID  |  empID  |  hours  |  Month  |
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Table 2:

A target table which has hour target per month. The target refers to an amount that the sum of all the hours worked by the employees should meet.

|  ID  |  hours target  |  Month  |
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Is it possible to return the sum of all table 1’s hours with the target of table 2 and group it by the month and return it in a single data set?

Example

|  Month | Actual Hours | hours target  | 
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|    1   |      320     |      350      |

etc.

Hope that is clear enough and many thanks for considering the question.

Answer 1

This should work:

SELECT t.[month], sum(a.[hours]) as ActualHours, t.[hourstarget]
FROM [TargetTable] t
JOIN [ActualsTable] a on t.[month] = a.[month]
GROUP BY t.[month], t.[hourstarget]

Written in plain English, you’re saying “give me the sum of all hours accrued, grouped by the month (and also include the target hours for that month)”.