On 08/10/2006 04:08:01 PM, Hostetter, Jay M wrote: > I know there has to be a simple way to do this, but my brain can't put > it togther this afternoon. I have a parent table (accounts) and a child > table (details). I am creating a view that ties the two tables > together. I would like a column in this view that shows a summary of a > column in the parent table - but I want this summary to be for each > distinct parent record - not the child records. > > Here is my view: > > create view test_view > (customer_name, > amount, > detail_item) > as > (select customer_name, > sum(amount), > detail_item > from accounts a, > details d > where a.account_no=d.account_no > group by customer_name; > How about this: select customer_name, sum(amount) over (partition by customer_name) as cheating_total, detail_item from accounts a, details d where a.account_no=d.account_no; -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mgogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l