On 8/24/05 9:46 AM, "Josep SanmartĂ­" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a 'big' problem:
> I have the following table users(name, start_time, end_time), a new row
> is set whenever a user logs into a server.  I want to know how many
> users have logged in EVERYDAY between 2 different dates. The only idea
> that I have is making several select (one for each day):
>   SELECT COUNT(name) FROM users WHERE start_time between "startDate"
> and "startDate+1"
>   SELECT COUNT(name) FROM users WHERE start_time between "startDate+1"
> and "startDate+2"
>   ...
> I would like to know if its possible to make it in 1 sql statement or
> just which is the best efficient way to solve it.
> By the way, I use Postgres 7.4.


See:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-select.html#SQL-UNION
like:

SELECT COUNT(name) FROM users WHERE start_time between "startDate"
 and "startDate+1"
union
SELECT COUNT(name) FROM users WHERE start_time between "startDate+1"
 and "startDate+2"

Sean


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