Werner,
> Umfortunately 'select employee,date,sallary+extras as total' doesn't give the
> desired result because 'somevalue + NULL' is considered to be NULL.
> Is there any solution for my (small) problem?
Try SELECT employee, date, salary + COALESCE(extras, 0) as total FROM ...
Regards
Grant
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