[comp.databases] Ingres: counting conditionally in Report/Writer

steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) (04/28/89)

I have an Ingres report in which I wanted to count
some rows according to a where condition and report
the count at the end of the report. (This is version
5.0.) I was surprised (no longer shocked at any
deficiency in Ingres) that although you can count
conditionally in quel, you apparently can't in
Ingres' Report/Writer (at least version 5.0). I
had to go back and write another quel script to
include only those I want to count.

I'd love to be proved wrong. Does anyone know a way
to count conditionally in a report? It seems an
obvious functionality a user would want.

Steve Goldfield