Thanks for all the help so far I know I'm almost there I figured out that all the items in the select need to be in the group by clause, however what is causing the problem is the date. When I run the query without the date it runs fine (actually I had to remove the FullName and break it into pat_First, Pat_Last) but I assume the GROUP BY is wanting everything the same before it adds them together. Well the date is the same but the time is different causing the entries to not match exactly and therefore will not add them together
New Query is: <cfquery name="rsGetPayments" datasource="#application.dsn#" username="#application.dsnUsername#" password="#application.dsnPassword#"> SELECT sum(tbl_HCFA_Purchase_Transactions.pur_Amount) AS Total, tbl_HCFA_Purchase_Transactions.pur_Date_Purchased, tbl_HCFA_Purchase_Transactions.Check_Num, tbl_Patients.Pat_First, tbl_Patients.Pat_Last FROM tbl_HCFA_Purchase_Transactions, tbl_Patients WHERE tbl_HCFA_Purchase_Transactions.PatientID = tbl_Patients.PatientID AND pur_Date_Purchased BETWEEN #CreateODBCDateTime(cFullStartDate)# AND #CreateODBCDateTime(cFullEndDate)# GROUP BY Check_Num, pur_Date_Purchased, Pat_Last, Pat_First ORDER BY Check_Num </cfquery> Output is: ID, Check_Num, pat_First, pat_Last, pur_Date_Purchased, Total 4, 8356, Dolores, Cannon, 2007-09-04 09:20:38.0, 100.000 5, 8357, Joseph, Manzanares, 2007-09-04 09:19:18.0, 204.0000 6, 8357, Joseph, Manzanares, 2007-09-04 09:19:55.0, 204.0000 7, 8358, Caesar, Marquez, 2007-09-04 09:31:02.0, 950.0000 Records 5 and 6 should be added together but since the time stamp is 9:19:18 and 9:19:55 they are not equal and therefore the sum wont add them I tried taking the date out of the group by statement and get: You tried to execute a query that does not include the specified expression 'pur_Date_Purchased' as part of an aggregate function. Travis Haley -----Original Message----- From: Azadi Saryev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 2:56 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Adding Small sections of a query it should make no difference how many records you have in your table. Dale's code will return the results you want. Azadi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289869 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4