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I'm pretty new to this so I'll explain as best I can.

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2. sum the points column in the attendance table and group by UID, storing in a new table called TOTAL_POINTS ONLY for those UID's which have a value > 0
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Number 3 is where I'm failing and could really use some help.

My code thus far...
-------------------------------

/*Declare local variables for current date and start date.*/
--
DECLARE @DateNow DATETIME
DECLARE @StartDate DATETIME
SET @DateNow=getdate()
SET @StartDate = DATEADD(Day, -14, @DateNow)
--
/*Create table to hold totals for future calculations*/
CREATE TABLE POINT_TOTALS
(UID int, TOTAL float)

/*select ALL records from the table within the above defined date range
and group them by UID tallying the score column*/
--
INSERT INTO POINT_TOTALS
SELECT UID, SUM (POINTS) AS TOTAL_POINTS
FROM attendance
WHERE date >= @StartDate
GROUP BY UID
--
/*If the TOTAL_POINTS > 0 for the 14 day period, insert a record in to the
attendance table which deducts .5 points for the UID in question*/

*** This is where I'm failing ***

--This was just to make sure I was returning the correct results to the POINTS_TOTAL table.
SELECT UID FROM POINT_TOTALS
WHERE TOTAL > 0

/*All I want to do now is for each of the UID's in the POINT_TOTALS table,
I want to perform a basic insert on the ATTENDANCE table where the UID's in both
match. I would think this to be fairly simple but I can't seem to figure it out.
*/

DROP TABLE POINT_TOTALS

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