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On Wed, Feb 13, 2019, 12:54 PM Jose Isaias Cabrera <jic...@outlook.com
wrote:

>
> James K. Lowden, on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 11:39 AM, wrote...
> >On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:05:29 +0000
> >Jose Isaias Cabrera <jic...@outlook.com> wrote:
> >
> >> >SELECT * From t WHERE datestamp = "20190208"
> >>
> >> Ok, Simon, I'll bite; :-) Imagine this table:
> >>
> >> t (n INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, a, b, c, d, e, idate)
> >
> >That's better.
> >
> >> how would I find the differences in the fields based on the different
> >> idate?
> >
> >select ...
> >from t as now join t as then
> >on now.idate = '20190208'
> >and then.idate = '20190207' -- note single quotes
> >and ... -- other things that match
> >where ... --- things that don't match
> >
> >Can't be more specific than that when the question is "find the
> >differences".
>
> This is the last fix on this,
>
> select new.a,old.b,new.b, 'difference in column b' as info from t as new
>   LEFT JOIN t as old ON
>     new.idate = '2019-02-12'
> AND old.idate = '2019-02-11'
> AND new.a = old.a
> WHERE
>   new.b != old.b
> UNION ALL
> select new.a,old.c,new.c, 'difference in column c' as info from t as new
>   LEFT JOIN t as old ON
>     new.idate = '2019-02-12'
> AND old.idate = '2019-02-11'
> AND new.a = old.a
> WHERE
>   new.c != old.c
> UNION ALL
> select new.d,old.d,new.d, 'difference in column d' as info from t as new
>   LEFT JOIN t as old ON
>     new.idate = '2019-02-12'
> AND old.idate = '2019-02-11'
> AND new.a = old.a
> WHERE
>   new.d != old.d
> UNION ALL
> select new.a,old.e,new.e, 'difference in column e' as info from t as new
>   LEFT JOIN t as old ON
>     new.idate = '2019-02-12'
> AND old.idate = '2019-02-11'
> AND new.a = old.a
> WHERE
>   new.e != old.e
> ORDER by new.a;
>
> Result,
>
> p001|2|4|difference in column c
> p001|4|3|difference in column e
> p002|2|4|difference in column c
> p003|2|4|difference in column c
> p004|2|4|difference in column c
> p005|5|3|difference in column b
> p005|2|3|difference in column c
>
> This is the best way of doing this, correct?  Thanks.
>
> josé
>
> PS:  I've learn a few things in this last 7 days or so.  Thanks so much
> you Gurus.
>
>
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