Hi, I have been writing a query to get sum of few columns and I am not able to get the rows that has atleast one column with no zero.
eg.
ExpenseA ExpenseB ExpenseC
$1000 $0 $0
$0 $200 $300
$0 $0 $0

and so on.

Now how do I get get only the first 2 rows not the third row since all the columns are zero. Here is how I have my query
Select sum(ExpenseA), sum(ExpenseB), sum(ExpenseC) from tblExpenses where ExpenseA > 0 or ExpenseB > 0 or ExpenseC > 0
I am still getting all the rows. Is there some built in sql function that will do this?

Thank you.

if there's no aggregation involved, your original query wont work either.



it should be

Select ExpenseA, ExpenseB, ExpenseC from tblExpenses where ExpenseA > 0 or ExpenseB > 0 or ExpenseC > 0

and it should work.

why you show Sum but the condition is on Expense?

how about

Select sum(ExpenseA), sum(ExpenseB), sum(ExpenseC) from tblExpenses where sum(ExpenseA) > 0 or sum(ExpenseB) > 0 or sum(ExpenseC) > 0

I tried that but I am getting the following error

"An aggregate may not appear in the WHERE clause unless it is in a subquery contained in a HAVING clause or a select list, and the column being aggregated is an outer reference."

thank you

if there's no aggregation involved, your original query wont work either.



it should be

Select ExpenseA, ExpenseB, ExpenseC from tblExpenses where ExpenseA > 0 or ExpenseB > 0 or ExpenseC > 0

and it should work.

thank you