Re: Finding missing items in a series

2002-04-05 Thread George Smith
Paul DuBois wrote: > > You need to create another table that has a row for each date in the > range, then use that table in a LEFT JOIN to your original table > to find rows in the date table that are not represented by your original > table. Thank you Paul, your sql table building script and

Re: Finding missing items in a series

2002-04-04 Thread Paul DuBois
At 9:14 -0500 4/4/02, George Smith wrote: >I have a mysql table like this >mysql> describe reports; >+-+-+--+-++---+ >| Field | Type| Null | Key | Default| Extra | >+-+-+--+-++---+ >| rptdate | date|

Finding missing items in a series

2002-04-04 Thread George Smith
I have a mysql table like this mysql> describe reports; +-+-+--+-++---+ | Field | Type| Null | Key | Default| Extra | +-+-+--+-++---+ | rptdate | date| | PRI | -00-00 | | | id | int(11