• badOedipus (4/15/2014)


    OK, so I figure I need to use a cursor or some advanced windowing functions, to get what I'm after but I'm not seeing it. Could someone assist?

    So I have a result set that looks like this:

    inv_id md_amt date


    12758 0.00 2013-12-20

    12758 11.51 2013-12-17

    12758 10.51 2013-12-16

    12758 10.51 2013-10-22

    12758 10.51 2013-10-17

    12758 3.51 2013-09-06

    12758 0.00 2013-08-26

    12758 5.51 2013-08-04

    12758 3.51 2013-07-14

    12758 0.00 2013-06-02

    What I need is a way to tell how many distinct markdowns have been taken since the last time the md_amt was 0 for a give date.

    For instance if I queried today's date I would get 0, no markdowns have been taken md_amt is currently at 0. If I queried 12/18/2013 I would get 3.

    Any clue how I can go about doing this? I've tried various ranking functions but the fact that the md_amts are not necessarily unique between going back to 0 throws a wrench in things. :unsure:

    You do NOT need a **cough**cursor**cough** here unless you want this process to be super slow.

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    2. Sample data in the form of INSERT INTO statements

    3. Expected results based on the sample data

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