Hi,
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Morten Primdahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> A user enters a date range (ie. 2 dates, '2008-04-01' and
> '2008-04-03'), the problem is to determine how many open events exist
> on each day in this interval.
>
> Assume that the "events" table has a "start_date" and an "end_date".
> One way to solve this problem, is to create an inline view in the
> query, eg.:
>
> SELECT virtual_date_range.index_date AS index_date, COUNT(*) AS
> matches
> FROM events, (
> SELECT DATE('2008-04-01') AS index_date FROM DUAL UNION ALL
> SELECT DATE('2008-04-02') FROM DUAL UNION ALL
> SELECT DATE('2008-04-03') FROM DUAL UNION ALL
> ) AS virtual_date_range
> WHERE virtual_date_range.index_date >= events.start_date
> AND virtual_date_range.index_date <= events.end_date
> GROUP BY index_date;
>
> This works. But I'm wondering if there's a more elegant way of
> expressing the same using pure DML, such that I don't need to build a
> huge inline view in case the range is multiple years. Anyone?
>
> A solution that doesn't return any rows for the dates that do not have
> an event would work.
>
> Example of the events table and the above query in action:
> http://www.pastie.org/185419
You can generate the values with the integers table.
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2005/12/07/the-integers-table/
Here's an example: http://markmail.org/message/6w46gyijsk5rrj4a
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