[sql] SQL: How to to SUM two values from different tables

I have a number of tables with values I need to sum up. They are not linked either, but the order is the same across all the tables.

Basically, I would like to take this two tables:

CASH TABLE  
London  540
France  240
Belgium 340

CHEQUE TABLE
London  780
France  490
Belgium 230

To get an output like this to feed into a graphing application:

London  1320
France  730
Belgium 570

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The answer is


For your current structure, you could also try the following:

select cash.Country, cash.Value, cheque.Value, cash.Value + cheque.Value as [Total]
from Cash
join Cheque
on cash.Country = cheque.Country

I think I prefer a union between the two tables, and a group by on the country name as mentioned above.

But I would also recommend normalising your tables. Ideally you'd have a country table, with Id and Name, and a payments table with: CountryId (FK to countries), Total, Type (cash/cheque)


you can also try this in sql-server !!

select a.city,a.total + b.total as mytotal from [dbo].[cash] a join [dbo].[cheque] b on a.city=b.city 

demo

or try using sum,union

select sum(total)  as mytotal,city
from
(
    select * from cash union
    select * from cheque
) as vij
group by city 

SELECT (SELECT COALESCE(SUM(London), 0) FROM CASH) + (SELECT COALESCE(SUM(London), 0) FROM CHEQUE) as result

'And so on and so forth.

"The COALESCE function basically says "return the first parameter, unless it's null in which case return the second parameter" - It's quite handy in these scenarios." Source