rollup

I have created a sample table below that is similar-enough to my table in excel that it should serve to illustrate the question. I want to simply add a row after each distinct datum in column1 (simplest way, using excel, thanks). _ CURRENT TABLE: column1 | column2 | column3 ---------------------------------- A | small | blue A | small | orange A | small | yellow B | med | yellow B | med | blue C | large | green D | large | green D | small | pink _ DESIRED TABLE Note: the blank row after each distinct column1 column1 | column2 | column3 ---------------------------------- A | small | blue A |

I know this sounds crazy and probably should not be done this way but I need something like this - I have a records from SELECT [Type], [Total Sales] From Before I want to add an extra row at the end to show the SUM at the end of the table (After). Could this be done? If you are on SQL Server 2008 or later version, you can use the ROLLUP() GROUP BY function: SELECT Type = ISNULL(Type, 'Total'), TotalSales = SUM(TotalSales) FROM atable GROUP BY ROLLUP(Type) ; This assumes that the Type column cannot have NULLs and so the NULL in this query would indicate the rollup row, the one with the grand