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How to Select SUM(ABS(Data)) in AX

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the Data Amount in my Table have Positive and Negative Values,

I need to SUM it up in my Report with all negative have to be positive to sum it up.

How do i code it?

SELECT SUM(ABS(Amount)) from Table ------*ERROR*
SELECT ABS(SUM(Amount)) from Table ------*ERROR*

any different approach?

thanks.

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    Mea_ 60,286 on at

    Hi RenSonozaki ,

    Try this :

    select sum(Amount) from table1 where amount < 0;

    select sum(Amount) from table2 where amount > 0;

    Amount = abs(table1.Amount) + table2.Amount;

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    Hi RenSonozaki !

    you try code again:

    real sum ; 

    While select * form Table 

    {

    if ( Table . Amount <0) sum += (Amount * (-1));

    else sum += Amount ;

    }

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    Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 239,040 Most Valuable Professional on at

    As far as I know, SSRS expression =(sum(abs(Fields!Amount.Value)) should work (but I didn't test it).

    If you're looking how to do in a select statement, Ievgen's approach is a nice and efficient workaround. You can't use T-SQL function ABS from X++, unless you use a computed column or a direct T-SQL query.

    Fetching all records one by one, as suggested by ThanhNguyen, would be inefficient and if you had many records, it would become a serious problem. By the way, you could use X++ function abs() there, therefore the body of the while loop could be simply sum += abs(table.Amount);.

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    i used ievgen Miroshnikov's suggestion, it worked. thanks.

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