• Sorry -

    What I am trying to achieve is a CASE within a CASE I suppose

    Two conditional checks ...

    So ...

    SUM ( CASE field_SEX WHEN "MALE" THEN

    CASE field_PARENTS_ALIVE WHEN "YES" Then 1 ELSE 0 END) ELSE 0 END ) as MaleParents

    SUM ( CASE field_SEX WHEN "FEMALE" THEN

    CASE field_PARENTS_ALIVE WHEN "YES" Then 1 ELSE 0 END) ELSE 0 END ) as FeMaleParents

    Does that make more sense ?

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    Steve
    SQL 2008 DBA/DBD - MCTS/MCITP

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