MySQL calculation

[pjrat]

Hi

 

Trying to learn MysQL and have a calculation problem. I want a query to do the following example (all are floats with numbers to add) -

 

SELECT a+b+c+d+e AS result FROM table

 

The above obviously dosen\'t work, where, this line below does -

 

SELECT a+b AS result FROM table (and gives me the total of the two fields). Can I calculate all five fields somehow and create a result field?

 

Thanks in advance - Pat J

[pallevillesen]

Well....

 

select 1+2+3+4+5 AS result;

 

does work fine enough....

 

So

 

select (a+b+c) as result from table;

 

should work as well.... check your syntax and if you are absolutely sure that there is something wrong, then please post some more info on tables and variables...

 

But you are using the correct syntax. It should work.

 

P.

[pjrat]

Hi (biopv)

 

Thanks for your answer, but I really made a silly mistake. One of the fields was NULL and this stopped it from running the query. Once I changed the field to NOT NULL and added a 0.0 default, it worked well.

 

Thanks, Pat.