MySQL的SUM函数是用来找出记录中各种的字段的总和。

要了解SUM函数考虑EMPLOYEE_TBL表具有以下记录：

mysql> SELECT * FROM employee_tbl;+------+------+------------+--------------------+| id | name | work_date | daily_typing_pages |+------+------+------------+--------------------+| 1 | John | 2007-01-24 | 250 || 2 | Ram | 2007-05-27 | 220 || 3 | Jack | 2007-05-06 | 170 || 3 | Jack | 2007-04-06 | 100 || 4 | Jill | 2007-04-06 | 220 || 5 | Zara | 2007-06-06 | 300 || 5 | Zara | 2007-02-06 | 350 |+------+------+------------+--------------------+7 rows in set (0.00 sec)

现在，假设根据上面的表想来计算所有的dialy_typing_pages的总数，那么可以通过使用下面的命令：

mysql> SELECT SUM(daily_typing_pages) -> FROM employee_tbl;+-------------------------+| SUM(daily_typing_pages) |+-------------------------+| 1610 |+-------------------------+1 row in set (0.00 sec)

可以使用GROUP BY子句设置的各种记录的总和。下面的例子将总结所有相关的记录一个人，打印纸的每一个人总数。

mysql> SELECT name, SUM(daily_typing_pages) -> FROM employee_tbl GROUP BY name;+------+-------------------------+| name | SUM(daily_typing_pages) |+------+-------------------------+| Jack | 270 || Jill | 220 || John | 250 || Ram | 220 || Zara | 650 |+------+-------------------------+5 rows in set (0.17 sec)