That would work, but it's not necessary. He should use a
LEFT JOIN, which will produce a row in the output for the
left table, whether or not any right table rows match it.
The syntax is in the MySQL manual.
I appreciate the pointer to LEFT JOIN and have read through the site's
Thanks, Harald. I'll experiment with this approach!
J
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You need a helper table containing just the numbers 0..N, where N is
greater than the maximum number of days in the query above. For
example:
CREATE TABLE seq (val INT NOT NULL
Thanks for the help, folks.
I see how the reference tables (either for the dates or the possible
number of days in the range) would work -- pretty slick solutions. I
worry about tables like that being able to scale, though, should a user
choose a large date range... I think, instead, I'll use the
