Using TimeStampDiff

Have a customer who want to see the total time spent in a location by location - I have the enter time and the exit time (both timestamps) and am able to calculate the difference using TimeStampDiff, however I want to create an aggergration on the total time by location? I can get the individual transaction time difference but can not figure out how to aggergrate these individual transactions together to get a "sum of time" by location?
Any suggestion?

Hi,
Try this............
sum(TIMESTAMPDIFF(interval, tablename.entry_time, tablename.exit_time) by tablename.location)
The specified interval. Valid values are: SQL_TSI_SECOND, SQL_TSI_MINUTE, SQL_TSI_HOUR, SQL_TSI_DAY, SQL_TSI_WEEK, SQL_TSI_MONTH, SQL_TSI_QUARTER, SQL_TSI_YEAR
Cheers,
Aravind

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