Question

I’ve been asked to combine data from various columns into one column. However the SUM function:

NewValue: Sum([Value1]+[Value2]+[Value3])

Merges the data together, e.g if there are 100 lines per column, it merges to one single answer:

Value1 Value2 Value3
10     20     30
10     25     35

Will show as:

NewValue
130

When I want it to show as:

NewValue
60
70

I hope that’s clear? I’m not very good with Access, so this role has sort of been dumped on me.

Answer 1

If you just want to add columns in the same row (but not over more than one row), you don’t need Sum() at all:

select Value1 + Value2 + Value3 as NewValue
from YourTable