Dear All,

I have a table ( called Files_U ) like so, and I have 2 questions 

File_name, Size_Byte, Date
Mydoc.doc, 1234, 11/12/2005
My.xls,2753,11/05/2004
fgf.pdf,90765,01/07/2001
the sheep and cucumber.mdb,4567356,01/01/2003
jojo-elliot.ppt,45675465,08/12/1995
hello_doly,8672341,12/9/1966

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I need total sum of the sizes of all entries (i.e the total sum of the “Size_Byte” Column). So I wrote this bit of Code; 
#! c:/perl/bin/perl.exe -slw
use strict;

use Win32::ODBC;

my $DSN = 'DD1';
my $DB = new Win32::ODBC($DSN) || die "Error => $DSN $!\n";

my $total = $DB->sql("SELECT SUM(Size_Byte) FROM Files_U WHERE Type ='
+doc'");
#print "$total"; this is not correct
$DB->Close;

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my sql statement seems to be ok (no errors), but what I don’t know how to do is to print out the returned value! i.e the total sum of the values in the Size column.

My other question is; how can I create an sql statement that returns all the values in between two different dates?

Can I rely on your help and guidance in this please and maybe a quick example?

Thanks
Blackadder

In reply to SQL to obtain total SUM of a column and all entries between 2 dates by blackadder

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