Re: sql question -- MIDRANGE-L

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You cannot group by the column name that you are creating... unless you
wrap another select around this one. But don't go that route,,,, instead
... group by substr(CLIENT_number,1,5)

Michael Schutte
Admin Professional
Bob Evans Farms, Inc.

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/10/2008 11:39:42 AM:

I have a file with an 8 position customer number numeric. I am trying the
following to get the total balance by corporate number (first 5 positions

customer number):

SELECT

substr(CLIENT_number,1,5) as corp, sum(BALANCE)

FROM

clfile

GROUP BY

corp

ORDER by

corp

I get the message "column corp not in specified table".

HELP!

Thanks..

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