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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:17:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Sum of Every Column
From: "Tom Haddon" <tom@haddons.net>
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Hi Folks,

I'm hoping to put together a query that generates a report on a table with
a large number of boolean fields. This report has to be able to adapt to
the number of fields in the table. Essentially, I want it to provide the
sum of TRUE values for each field for a given subset of the table. I've
got the query that returns the subset of the table (this is based on a
relationship with another table):

SELECT breast_cancer_resources.*
FROM breast_cancer_resources, agency_contact_info
WHERE breast_cancer_resources.id=agency_contact_info.id
	AND agency_contact_info.guideregion=1
            AND agency_contact_info.list_online=TRUE

But I'm not sure how to generate the sum for each column. Should I be
looking elsewhere than SQL to do this for me, such as php (this is for a
web-based report)?

Thanks, Tom