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Sum

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Sum - AWS Glue

Checks the sum of all the values in a column against a given expression.

Syntax

Sum <COL_NAME> <EXPRESSION>
  • COL_NAME – The name of the column that you want to evaluate the data quality rule against.

    Supported column types: Byte, Decimal, Double, Float, Integer, Long, Short

  • EXPRESSION – An expression to run against the rule type response in order to produce a Boolean value. For more information, see Expressions.

Example: Sum

The following example rule checks whether the sum of all of the values in a column exceeds a given threshold.

Sum "transaction_total" > 500000 Sum "Salary" < 55600 where "Customer_ID < 10"

Sample dynamic rules

  • Sum "ColA" > avg(last(10))

  • Sum "colA" between min(last(10)) - 1 and max(last(10)) + 1

Null behavior

The Sum rule will ignore rows with NULL values in the calculation of sum. For example:

+---+-----------+ |id |units | +---+-----------+ |100|0 | |101|null | |102|20 | |103|null | |104|40 | +---+-----------+

The sum of column units will not consider rows 101 and 103 and result to (0 + 20 + 40) = 60.

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