perfect, its one of those that I've used so rarely, I never thought about
it ... thanks :)
On Sat, 15 Jun 2003, deststar wrote:
> Isn't that what the having clause is about?
> - Stuart
>
> On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 00:31, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > I have a query that looks like:
> >
> > SELECT SUM(bytes) AS traffic
> > FROM traffic_table
> > GROUP BY ip;
> >
> > I want to narrow that SELECT down to a subset, like:
> >
> > SELECT SUM(bytes) AS traffic
> > FROM traffic_table
> > WHERE traffic < ( 100 * 1024 * 1024 )
> > GROUP BY ip;
> >
> > which, of course, won't work, cause I need to do the GROUP BY before I do
> > the WHERE ... but there has to be a way of coding that so that it does
> > work :(
> >
> > I'm overlooking something obvious here ... I think?
> >
> > Thanks ...
> >
> > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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