Question

I have two tables. They’re in a 1:N relationship.

Tasks – Id
– Name

Report – Id
– Time
– TaskId -FK

I’d like to create a query which will sum the report time by a task.

I tried this,but its not working

SELECT NAME,SUM (TIME) FROM TASKS LEFT JOIN REPORT ON TASKS.ID = REPORT.TASKID                         
                GROUP BY TASKS.NAME

Its Oracle and with this query the time column is null in the result.

Answer 1

SELECT
  NAME, 
  SUM( ISNULL(TIME, 0) ) SumOfTime /* Time could be NULL! */
FROM
  TASKS 
  LEFT JOIN REPORT ON TASKS.ID = REPORT.TASKID                         
GROUP BY
  TASKS.NAME