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SQL cummulative sum by group

I am struggling in finding a solution to create a cumulative sum by group in SQL.

I have a table which have different events. What I want to accomplish is to sum the duration time of an event.

CREATE TABLE Events(
  EventID int,
  EventName varchar(20),
  EventTime numeric(17,6)
);

INSERT INTO Events VALUES (1, 'Event1_Start', 0.2);
INSERT INTO Events VALUES (2, 'Event2_Start', 0.3);
INSERT INTO Events VALUES (3, 'Event3_End', 0.2);
INSERT INTO Events VALUES (4, 'Event2_End', 0.6);
INSERT INTO Events VALUES (5, 'Event4_Start', 0);
INSERT INTO Events VALUES (2, 'Event2_Start', 0.3);
INSERT INTO Events VALUES (6, 'Event1_End', 0);

What I need is a cumulative sum that gives me the total duration of Event1 as column besides ‘Event1_Start’ row. I would like to sum all the intermediates events before my event_start and event_end.

EventID EventName EventTime CumSumEvent1
1 Event1_Start 0.2 1.6
2 Event2_Start 0.3 0
3 Event3_End 0.2 0
4 Event2_End 0.6 0
5 Event4_Start 0 0
2 Event2_Start 0.3 0
6 Event1_End 0 0

I try to use sum over partition but no luck and CTE.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Best regards.

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Answer

you can group by part of the string:

select substr(eventname, 1, 6), sum(eventtime) from Events group by substr(eventname, 1,6)

db<>fiddle here

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