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FUNCTION: SUM

SELECT SUM(field) AS [expression]
FROM table
[WHERE ...]
[GROUPBY ...]
[HAVING ...]

 
The SUM function is one of the aggregate functions that are used to calculate statistical information for a specified numeric field in a query. The other aggregate functions are: AVG, COUNT, MAX, MIN, STDEV, STDEVP, VAR, VARP. Note that all of these functions return a single value.
 
The SUM function simply adds all of the values in a field and return the total sum.
 
This code finds the total number of days that MediCare patients stayed in the hospital and stores that information in MCTotalDays.
 
SELECT SUM(DaysInHospital) AS [MCTotalDays]
FROM MediCarePatients
WHERE age > 65


 


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