Question

I want to be able to select different columns in a single mysql query. I know this is easily done is sql, but how do you do this is MySQL?

SELECT
MyfirstResult = (select sum(Counted * PartCost) FROM tblParts WHERE resultofcount < 0),
MySecondresult = (select sum(Counted * PartCost) FROM tblParts WHERE resultofcount > 0)

That query is fine for SQL but how do I port the same functionality to MySQl

my result should be 1000|2000 in this case. A single row with 2 columns.

Answer 1

Just reverse your syntax a little. The column alias name follows the calculated expression or subselect via AS aliasname.

SELECT
  (select sum(Counted * PartCost) FROM tblParts WHERE resultofcount < 0) AS MyFirstResult,
  (select sum(Counted * PartCost) FROM tblParts WHERE resultofcount > 0) AS MySecondResult