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SQL SUM () function

SUM () function

SUM () function returns the value of the total number of columns.

SQL SUM () syntax

SELECT SUM(column_name) FROM table_name;


The demo database

In this tutorial, we will use w3big sample database.

The following data is selected from the "access_log" table:

mysql> SELECT * FROM access_log;
+-----+---------+-------+------------+
| aid | site_id | count | date       |
+-----+---------+-------+------------+
|   1 |       1 |    45 | 2016-05-10 |
|   2 |       3 |   100 | 2016-05-13 |
|   3 |       1 |   230 | 2016-05-14 |
|   4 |       2 |    10 | 2016-05-14 |
|   5 |       5 |   205 | 2016-05-14 |
|   6 |       4 |    13 | 2016-05-15 |
|   7 |       3 |   220 | 2016-05-15 |
|   8 |       5 |   545 | 2016-05-16 |
|   9 |       3 |   201 | 2016-05-17 |
+-----+---------+-------+------------+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)


SQL SUM () examples

The following SQL statement finds the total number of "count" field "access_log" table:

Examples

SELECT SUM (count) AS nums FROM access_log;

Execute the above SQL output results are as follows: