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Calculate Running Total, Total of a Column and Row

Calculate Running Total, Total of a Column and Row

18 Mar 2024
Intermediate
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How to do Running Total: An Overview

You are often required to show information on each transaction and keep a Running Total and Final Total like GridView in Asp.Net. In this SQL Server, I am going to explain, how you can achieve this using SQL Query simply and easily.

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Suppose you have the below CustomerOrders table and have the data as shown below:


CREATE TABLE CustomerOrders
(
 OrderID int identity,
 Amount Decimal(8,2),
 OrderDate SmallDatetime default getdate()
 )

Go
 
 INSERT INTO CustomerOrders(Amount) Values(120.12)
 INSERT INTO CustomerOrders(Amount) Values(20.12)
 INSERT INTO CustomerOrders(Amount) Values(10.12)
 INSERT INTO CustomerOrders(Amount) Values(30.12)
 INSERT INTO CustomerOrders(Amount) Values(40)

GO
 
 SELECT * FROM CustomerOrders

Output

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Calculating Running Total

Let's see how to calculate the running total using SQL Query as given below:


 select OrderID, OrderDate, CO.Amount
 ,(select sum(Amount) from CustomerOrders 
 where OrderID <= CO.OrderID)
 'Running Total'
from CustomerOrders CO

Output

Calculating Final Total

Let's see how to calculate the final total using ROLLUP within SQL Query as given below:


SELECT OrderID, SUM(Amount) AS Amount
FROM CustomerOrders
GROUP BY OrderID WITH ROLLUP

Output

Calculating the Total of All Numeric Columns in a Row

Let's see how to calculate the total of all numeric fields within a row using SQL Query as given below:


SELECT OrderID, Amount, SUM(OrderID+Amount) AS RowNumericColSum
FROM CustomerOrders
GROUP BY OrderID,Amount
ORDER BY OrderID

Output

What do you think?

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Shailendra Chauhan (Microsoft MVP, Founder & CEO at Scholarhat by DotNetTricks)

Shailendra Chauhan is the Founder and CEO at ScholarHat by DotNetTricks which is a brand when it comes to e-Learning. He provides training and consultation over an array of technologies like Cloud, .NET, Angular, React, Node, Microservices, Containers and Mobile Apps development. He has been awarded Microsoft MVP 8th time in a row (2016-2023). He has changed many lives with his writings and unique training programs. He has a number of most sought-after books to his name which has helped job aspirants in cracking tough interviews with ease.
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