How to get Total salary in Table

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There is One Table Sal.there is only two columns.
create table sal(emp varhar(50), salary nvarchar(100))
In Salary Field there is so many values.How can i get Total amount of Salary column.
like
sal
10,000
20,000
30,000
how to get sum of sal values.

Posted 14-Jul-14 1:24am

benzimen

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[no name] 14-Jul-14 7:29am

Well since you foolishly decided to store your numbers as strings, you will have to convert the strings to numbers before you can sum them.

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Maciej Los · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-14T03:55:00

Solution 3

First of all, change the data type[^] for Salary column to accept numeric values instead of string. Use ALTER TABLE[^] comand:

SQL

ALTER TABLE SAL ALTER COLUMN Salary DECIMAL(10,2)

Secondly, use query like this:

SQL

SELECT SUM(Salary)
FROM SAL;

Posted 14-Jul-14 3:55am

Maciej Los

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Jul-14 11:44am

5ed.
—SA

Maciej Los 14-Jul-14 14:47pm

Thank you, Sergey ;)

Atyant Srivastava · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-14T02:48:00

Solution 2

SQL

select SUM(CONVERT(money, salary)) AS Total from sal

Posted 14-Jul-14 2:48am

Atyant Srivastava

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Maciej Los 14-Jul-14 9:56am

Good, but it needs some extra explanation. Have a look at my answer.

Avinash502 · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-14T01:34:00

Solution 1

Hi benzimen,

select sum(cast(replace(salary,',','')as float)) from sal;

Hope this will helpful for you..

Posted 14-Jul-14 1:34am

Avinash502

Updated 14-Jul-14 1:35am