I have a table like this (Oracle, 10)
Account Bookdate Amount
1 20080101 100
1 20080102 101
2 20080102 200
1 20080103 -200
...
What I need is new table grouped by Account order by Account asc and Bookdate asc with a running total field, like this:
Account Bookdate Amount Running_total
1 20080101 100 100
1 20080102 101 201
1 20080103 -200 1
2 20080102 200 200
...
Is there a simple way to do it?
Thanks in advance.
Do you really need the extra table?
You can get that data you need with a simple query, which you can obviously create as a view if you want it to appear like a table.
This will get you the data you are looking for:
select
account, bookdate, amount,
sum(amount) over (partition by account order by bookdate) running_total
from t
/
This will create a view to show you the data as if it were a table:
create or replace view t2
as
select
account, bookdate, amount,
sum(amount) over (partition by account order by bookdate) running_total
from t
/
If you really need the table, do you mean that you need it constantly updated? or just a one off? Obviously if it's a one off you can just "create table as select" using the above query.
Test data I used is:
create table t(account number, bookdate date, amount number);
insert into t(account, bookdate, amount) values (1, to_date('20080101', 'yyyymmdd'), 100);
insert into t(account, bookdate, amount) values (1, to_date('20080102', 'yyyymmdd'), 101);
insert into t(account, bookdate, amount) values (1, to_date('20080103', 'yyyymmdd'), -200);
insert into t(account, bookdate, amount) values (2, to_date('20080102', 'yyyymmdd'), 200);
commit;
edit:
forgot to add; you specified that you wanted the table to be ordered - this doesn't really make sense, and makes me think that you really mean that you wanted the query/view - ordering is a result of the query you execute, not something that's inherant in the table (ignoring Index Organised Tables and the like).