Grouping on ISNULL SP

I use the folliowing SP in a report in which i group by categorydescription:

SELECT ISNULL(categorydescription,'No category indicator code') as categorydescription, AccountMV, AccountFeeLY, ISNULL(company,'other') from snapsraw
where branchstate = @.state and (monthend = @.date)

problem is it doesnt show the isnull value for categorydescription in the group table, its just blank?

nevermind, doesntshow up in VS, but shows up on websql

Group By Problem

The following sql statement is giving error when i insert the line Group By...(to get the total amount of Job_id's):

SELECT Isnull(tbl1.Job_no, tbl2.Job_no) As Job_No, tbl1.Amount, tbl1.Entry_id
FROM tbl2 FULL OUTER JOIN tbl1
ON tbl1.colx = tbl2.coly
WHERE <Condition>
GROUP BY Isnull(tbl1.Job_no, tbl2.Job_no);

tbl1 and tbl2 have columns Job_no. But one has a null value if the other value other that null. So the statement above will list the job_no (combined from the two tables), the Amount and the Entry_ID. What i'm trying to arrive at is to add all amount on the same Job_no.

any comment will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Merio

The following sql statement is giving error when i insert the line Group By...(to get the total amount of Job_id's):

SELECT Isnull(tbl1.Job_no, tbl2.Job_no) As Job_No, tbl1.Amount, tbl1.Entry_id
FROM tbl2 FULL OUTER JOIN tbl1
ON tbl1.colx = tbl2.coly
WHERE <Condition>
GROUP BY Isnull(tbl1.Job_no, tbl2.Job_no);

tbl1 and tbl2 have columns Job_no. But one has a null value if the other value other that null. So the statement above will list the job_no (combined from the two tables), the Amount and the Entry_ID. What i'm trying to arrive at is to add all amount on the same Job_no.

any comment will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Instead of:
GROUP BY Isnull(tbl1.Job_no, tbl2.Job_no);
Try
GROUP BY Job_No.

But i belive that that work either,
What you might have to do is group by all tthe other fields
GROUP BY tbl1.Amount, tbl1.Entry_id|||

Quote:

Originally Posted by tezza98

Instead of:
GROUP BY Isnull(tbl1.Job_no, tbl2.Job_no);
Try
GROUP BY Job_No.

But i belive that that work either,
What you might have to do is group by all tthe other fields
GROUP BY tbl1.Amount, tbl1.Entry_id

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The problem was solved when i changed the first line with this:
SELECT Isnull(tbl1.Job_no, tbl2.Job_no) As Job_no, SUM(tbl1.amount) As Amount

I needed to put the SUM on tbl1.amount. - I thought that tbl1.amount would be totaled automatically when GROUP BY is used... I was wrong. :0

Thanks for your comment :)