Re: sum(bool)?

hi there,

soooo cool,
this works streight away and took 5 min. waiting for a answer :-)

thanks very much to you tod personal and the mailing list for existence.

Olaf

Tod McQuillin schrieb:
>
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Olaf Zanger wrote:
>
> > i'd like to add up the "true" values of a comparison like
> >
> > sum(a>b)
> >
> > it just doesn't work like this
>
> Try
>
> sum(case when a>b then 1 else 0 end)
> --
> Tod McQuillin

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