Subject Re: SUM
From Akshat Kapoor <akshat.kapoor@kapoorsons.in>
Date Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:01:00 +0530
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

Good Evening Jerry,

> I have a table with a numerical field named ENTRYFEE containing both positive and negative numbers in the format 1.00,2.00,-3.00, etc.
> Every time I SUM this field I get 0.00 ?
>
> sum entryfee to x
> ? x
>
> I am still new at this so much appreciation for a possible solution.

Is there a possibility of null in the table. Null in even a single row
can give unexpected results.

sum amount to x
?x

I checked the above command on my system and it is working fine.

Try changing 1 row to a large number. It might be possible that the sum
may actually be 0

Regards
Akshat