From: Keith Clark (keithclarkk-wbookworm.com)
Date: Tue Apr 27 2010 - 16:52:46 CDT

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I have the following statement:

select chart_of_accounts.accountname as Account,
concat('$',format(coalesce(sum(sales_journal_entries.debit),0),2)) as
Debit,
concat('$',format(coalesce(sum(sales_journal_entries.credit),0),2)) as
Credit,
concat('$',format(coalesce(sum(sales_journal_entries.credit),0)-coalesce(sum(sales_journal_entries.debit),0),2)) as Balance
from sales_journal_entries
left join sales_journal
on sales_journal.journalID=sales_journal_entries.journalID
left join chart_of_accounts
on chart_of_accounts.accountID=sales_journal_entries.accountID
where sales_journal.date > '2008-12-31'
and sales_journal.date < '2010-01-01'
group by sales_journal_entries.accountID
order by Balance asc;

and I'd like the output to be sorted by the Balance according to the
numberic value, but it is sorting by the string result. I tried
abs(Balance) but I get the following error:

1247 Reference 'Balance' not supported (reference to group function)

I'm not sure I understand the error.

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