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popq79 34287

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:23 AM

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Hi All
Can someone help me how to select the row with min(E_DATE+E_Time) for each PATIID from the below table?

 

PATID NAME A_DATE 	E_DATE     E_TIME    E_ID
00001 AAA  01/01/2013   01/01/2013 06:00:00  X9625
00001 AAA  01/01/2013   01/01/2013 14:00:00  A2505
00002 BBB  01/03/2012   03/04/2012 15:45:00  G2582 
00002 BBB  01/01/2012   01/02/2012 13:45:00  P4484
00002 BBB  01/01/2012   04/01/2012 11:45:00  M1402
...
...

Results need to be like below (ie. min (E_DATE+E_TIME) for each PATID

 
PATID NAME A_DATE      E_DATE      E_TIME    E_ID
00001 AAA  01/01/2013   01/01/2013 06:00:00  X9625
00002 BBB  01/01/2012   04/01/2012 11:45:00  M1402

Please note I'm using SQL2000.

Thanks in advance

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Sean Lange

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2013 7:46 AM

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I see you are pretty new around here. Can you please take a look at the first link in my signature for best practices when posting questions?

Also, if at all possible you should ALWAYS store date time information in a datetime field. From what you posted I am guessing these are stored as varchar values. As we work through your issue you will see how painful that can be.

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popq79 34287

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:09 AM

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Sorry my mistake, these are datetime fields (but I'm using 2 fields - one to store date and the other for time)

Is there a way to do a select to obtain the result I want?

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Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:17 AM

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popq79 34287 (1/23/2013)

Sorry my mistake, these are datetime fields (but I'm using 2 fields - one to store date and the other for time)

What are trying to gain there? The datetime datatype holds both.

Is there a way to do a select to obtain the result I want?

Yes as I said please see the link in my signature for best practices. If you can post ddl (create table scripts), sample data (insert statements) you will find lots of people willing and able to help. Given the sample you posted it looks like maybe E_ID is your primary key?

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Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:26 AM

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... sorry, didn't notice you were on SQl Server 2000. I han an answer for 2005+.

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Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:21 AM

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popq79 34287 (1/23/2013)

Hi All
Can someone help me how to select the row with min(E_DATE+E_Time) for each PATIID from the below table?

 

PATID NAME A_DATE 	E_DATE     E_TIME    E_ID
00001 AAA  01/01/2013   01/01/2013 06:00:00  X9625
00001 AAA  01/01/2013   01/01/2013 14:00:00  A2505
00002 BBB  01/03/2012   03/04/2012 15:45:00  G2582 
00002 BBB  01/01/2012   01/02/2012 13:45:00  P4484
00002 BBB  01/01/2012   04/01/2012 11:45:00  M1402
...
...

Results need to be like below (ie. min (E_DATE+E_TIME) for each PATID

 
PATID NAME A_DATE      E_DATE      E_TIME    E_ID
00001 AAA  01/01/2013   01/01/2013 06:00:00  X9625
00002 BBB  01/01/2012   04/01/2012 11:45:00  M1402

Please note I'm using SQL2000.

Thanks in advance

I cobbled together an example of this but I don't quite understand your business rules here. You said you wanted to get the earliest for each PATID but for PATID 00002 you did not get the earliest. The earliest one would be for E_ID P4484 not M1402 as you posted.

Here is the example of what I think you want.

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#SomeTable') IS NOT NULL
	drop table #SomeTable

create table #SomeTable
(
	PATID char(5),
	Name char(3),
	A_DATE datetime,
	E_DATE datetime,
	E_TIME datetime,
	E_ID char(5) primary key
)

insert #SomeTable
select '00001', 'AAA', '01/01/2013', '01/01/2013', '06:00:00', 'X9625' union all
select '00001', 'AAA', '01/01/2013', '01/01/2013', '14:00:00', 'A2505' union all
select '00002', 'BBB', '01/03/2012', '03/04/2012', '15:45:00', 'G2582' union all
select '00002', 'BBB', '01/01/2012', '01/02/2012', '13:45:00', 'P4484' union all
select '00002', 'BBB', '01/01/2012', '04/01/2012', '11:45:00', 'M1402'


select st.*
from #SomeTable st
join 
(
	select PATID, MIN(E_DATE + E_TIME) as E_DATETIME
	from #SomeTable
	group by PATID
) x on x.PATID = st.PATID and x.E_DATETIME = st.E_DATE + st.E_TIME

Please notice how I posted a sample table and populated with data. This is what we would like to see when posting questions. This way we all know what the datatypes are and the people who help answer questions (all volunteer) can get to work on the issue instead of setting up the problem.

I still don't quite get why you want to have 2 datetime fields to hold one piece of information. Especially when you have to constantly add them together to get the whole thing. w00t

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