This is very easy to do.  You need to use a group by clause in a select 
statement.

R> select account, (sum(budget)) from mytable group by account

The only trick with group by clauses is that for every col in the select 
that is not an aggregate function like sum must also appear in the group by 
clause.

Troy Sosamon
Denver, Co.

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i know this is more of an sql question (and a newbie one at that) than an 
rbase question but im having a problem tryin to figure this out.
 
I have a table with 2 columns...1 is Account and the other is Budget.  What 
i need is a sum of Budget, but there are duplicate entries so i need it to 
sum Budget where Account is distinct.  Anyone know how to do this?
 
thanx for the help!

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