----- Message d'origine ----- De : "Peter Cushing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : <[email protected]> Envoyé : vendredi 22 juin 2007 11:49 Objet : Re: RE : SQL question : How to sum ?
Gérard Lochon wrote: > Just for fun, if you prefer useless and complicated things : > > select sum(floor((1-sign(discount))/2)*discount) from table. > > Not useless but certainly complicated! > I've never used SIGN() before as never come across a situation that > needed it. Mathematicians will tell you that every situation needs a complicated solution. More, if you have any situation that seems not to be ordinarly solved, using a complicated way will always solve it. It's just a matter of coding. Gérard. P.S. : and think about that : if MS brought a SIGN() function, that means something was unfeasable without it. I mean inside MS world. ;o) ____________ Analysé par G DATA AVK Version : AVK 17.5571 de 22.06.2007 Informations sur les virus : www.antiviruslab.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
