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How do you combine them if you are on an earlier release, that does not
have the 'case' construct? My earlier post had the wame thing you do, I see.

At 01:40 PM 3/22/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@attbi.com]
> >Not sure if there's a way to combine the sums in one statement
>
>Sure you can:
>
>select sum(case when whvarl = 'Y' then whallc else whfldb end)
>from vern/ffd
>
>Also, I would have expected
>
>with dummyfile (tempsum) as (select sum(whallc) from x where whvarl='Y'
>union
>select sum(whfldb) from x where whvarl<>'Y')
>select sum(tempsum) from dummyfile
>
>to work, but it would appear that the with statement doesn't allow union
>selects.
>
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