Perform SQL function on single column based on multiple foreign keys

Question

I encounter this problem when trying to work out a dimensional database design. Basicially I haave a fact table (sale_fact) which contains a surrogate key, several foreign keys (pid for product id, cid for country id and date), and sales data. The granularity or this fact table is on daily basis. How do I sum up the sales data for weeks (or months), depending on different combinations of those foreign keys? For example, I want to sum up sales data of product 1 in country 1 in this week (pid = 1 and cid = 1 and date = Monday), sales data of product 2 in country 2 in the same week (pid = 2 and cid = 2 and date = Monday). How do I achieve this data in one SQL? The sample result set would be like:

    | id | pid | cid |     date     | total |
    | 1  |  1  |  1  |  2013-11-04  |   100 |
    | 2  |  1  |  2  |  2013-11-04  |  90   |
    | 3  |  1  |  3  |  2013-11-04  |  80   |
    | 4  |  2  |  1  |  2013-11-04  |  91   |

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Answer 1

Why don't you use something like select sum(sales) as 'total' from table where date = Monday groupby pid, cid...