Dan, > Hi folks. This is giving me fits. I feel like it oughta be simple, but > apparantly its not...I think.
> I need a ( preferably single ) query that will sum the costs for all unique > pairs of codes, without regard to column order. That is, for summing > purposes, rows 1 and 3 are identical, and should produce the sum of 8 for > the unordered pair("aaa","bbb"). It should also, of course, prevent the case > where ("bbb","aaa") is considered a seperate pair. Any ideas would be much > appreciated. It's not simple, because your DB design is poorly normalized. My first suggestion would be to make some design changes to your schema. Is that possible? -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly