Question

Let’s say I have a hypothetical table like so that records when some player in some game scores a point:

name   points
------------
bob     10
mike    03
mike    04
bob     06

How would I get the sum of each player’s scores and display them side by side in one query?

Total Points Table

bob   mike
16     07

My (pseudo)-query is:

SELECT sum(points) as "Bob" WHERE name="bob",
       sum(points) as "Mike" WHERE name="mike"
  FROM score_table

Answer 1

You can pivot your data ‘manually’:

SELECT SUM(CASE WHEN name='bob' THEN points END) as bob,
       SUM(CASE WHEN name='mike' THEN points END) as mike
  FROM score_table

but this will not work if the list of your players is dynamic.