In article <d9Iea.117330$JE5.48428@news2.central.cox.net>,
"Dan Winslow" <d.winslow@cox.net> writes:
> Hi folks. This is giving me fits. I feel like it oughta be simple, but
> apparantly its not...I think.
> Given a table :
> create table tablea (
> code1 varchar(32),
> code2 varchar(32),
> cost int
> );
> and the rows
> code1 code2 cost
> ----------------------------------
> "aaa" "bbb" 2
> "ddd" "eee" 3
> "bbb" "aaa" 6
> "ggg" "hhh" 4
> I need a ( preferably single ) query that will sum the costs for all unique
> pairs of codes, without regard to column order. That is, for summing
> purposes, rows 1 and 3 are identical, and should produce the sum of 8 for
> the unordered pair("aaa","bbb"). It should also, of course, prevent the case
> where ("bbb","aaa") is considered a seperate pair. Any ideas would be much
> appreciated.
How about this one?
SELECT CASE WHEN code1 < code2 THEN code1 ELSE code2 END || '\0' || CASE WHEN code1 < code2 THEN code2
ELSEcode1 END AS codes, SUM(cost) AS costs FROM tablea GROUP BY codes;
