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Query to partially summarize data in a table using SQL

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I'm learning how to handle databases, so this is a trivial question, and quite likely has been answered already. I'm just not familiar to the lingo and have no idea how to search for it (although I tried). My data is on LibreOffice, which runs HSQLDB v1.8 (very old engine version). For the moment, I have to stick to it. Using a more up-to-date SQL engine is not possible. I have a payment table with the following structure member_id pay_year pay_unit 0 2016 1 0 2017 2 0 2017 1 0 2017 1 0 2018 2 1 2015 1 1 2018 2 I need to sumarize this table into something like member_id pay_year pay_unit_year 0 2016 1 0 2017 4 0 2018 2 1 2017 1 1 2018 2 The pay_unit_year is the number of years of membership purchased. So eventually I need to operate with the years and units, and getting a single line per member member_id expire_year 0 2023 1 2020 I'm using SELECT DISTINCT member_id, pay_year, pay_unit FROM payments and I'm getting member_id pay_year pay_unit 0 2016 1 0 2017 2 0 2017 1 0 2018 2 1 2017 1 1 2018 2 Is there any way to perform an operation on a subset of pay_unit that has the other columns the same information? I'm aware that SQL has many available date operations, but HSQLDB v1.8 has not them implemented. Thanks for any help, and for your patience
Asked by phollox (123 rep)
Aug 29, 2018, 02:50 PM
Last activity: Aug 29, 2018, 03:33 PM