FORMULA & SQL / TOTALS

Total where a column is one of two values.
Tested, not guessed.

The Excel and Google Sheets formula and the SQL query, each run on the rows below. Open this with your own data ↗

The example rows

Row	A: Region	B: Rep	C: Amount	D: Order Date	E: Status	F: Customer
2	North	Ana	1,200	2026-03-01	Paid	Jo Smith
3	South	Ben	450	2026-03-15	Open	Raj Patel
4	North	Cy	300	2026-04-02	Paid	Lee Wong
5	East	Ana	980.50	2026-04-20	Paid	Mia Ross
6	North	Ben	75	2026-05-05	Open	Jo Smith
7	West	Dee	1,640	2026-05-18	Paid	Sam Okoro

Excel

=SUM(SUMIFS(C:C,A:A,{"North","South"}))

The total of the total of the Amount column (C:C) where the Region column (A:A) is the list {"North", "South"}.

Run on the example rows:

Result2025

PostgreSQL

SELECT SUM(amount) AS total
FROM sales
WHERE region IN ('North', 'South')

Run on the example rows:

total
2025

Other databases

MySQL

SELECT SUM(amount) AS total
FROM sales
WHERE region IN ('North', 'South')

SQL Server

SELECT SUM(amount) AS total
FROM sales
WHERE region IN ('North', 'South')

SQLite

SELECT SUM(amount) AS total
FROM sales
WHERE region IN ('North', 'South')

BigQuery

SELECT SUM(amount) AS total
FROM sales
WHERE region IN ('North', 'South')

Snowflake

SELECT SUM(amount) AS total
FROM sales
WHERE region IN ('North', 'South')

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