Question

Using MS SQL I’m trying the following:

I have one table with game data. In this table a player name can occur many times.
I now want to create a summary table, where every player has a single row.

Using the following statement, I can populate the summary tables “playername” column.

INSERT INTO PLAYER_Summary (Playername)
SELECT DISTINCT [Playername]  
FROM ppPLAYER

The summary table also has columns for sums of the players results.

How can i populate my summary table so that each name and the correlating sums are in it once.

I need something like:

INSERT INTO PLAYER_Summary
(Playername, WinWhat )
SELECT DISTINCT [Playername] FROM ppPLAYER , SUM(WinWhat) FROM ppPLAYER

How can I make this work and parse the unique playername with his sum?

Thanks

Answer 1

INSERT INTO PLAYER_Summary
(Playername, WinWhat )
SELECT Playername, SUM(WinWhat)
FROM ppPLAYER 
group by Playername