I was under the impression that NTILE would be more useful ... especially if you are in a development cycle and requirements for more sql statements are going to surface.
See http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/ functions101.htm#sthref1696
r, Gus On Sep 11, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Stephane Faroult wrote:
Lyal Wooops. This one should be correct (hopefully): select sum(case sign(inv_dt - trunc(sysdate, 'YEAR')) when 1 then ord_tot when 0 then ord_tot else 0 end) TY, sum(case sign(inv_dt - trunc(sysdate, 'YEAR')) when -1 then ord_tot else 0 end) LY from ar_inv_hdrwhere inv_dt between add_months(trunc(sysdate, 'YEAR'), -12) and sysdateLyall Barbour wrote:Hi again,Development question. User wants the sum of all the purchase orders for this year and last year. I'm trying to get it in the same select statement. I want something like this, but don't know how to get it.select sum(ord_tot) "TY Invoiced Totals", sum(ord_tot) "LY Invoiced Totals" from ar_inv_hdr where inv_dt between trunc(sysdate, 'YYYY') and sysdateand inv_dt between trunc(sysdate, 'YYYY')-1 and trunc(sysdate, 'YYYY')-365This, obviously, doesn't do what i want, but it's where i've gotten to so far. Do i need to select from the same table twice?Thanks, Lyall-- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l