m.dunster (10/30/2013)
Hi,Wondering if anyone has an elegant solution to finding out how much time has elapsed for a specific hour.
declare @t as table (ptr int identity, START time, ENDD time)
insert into @t (START, ENDD)
SELECT '09:30', '10:30'
union all
SELECT '10:00', '11:00'
union all
SELECT '10:30', '11:30'
Taking the example table above, I am looking to output the amount of time elapsed for each hour block. So:
09 - 0.5
10 - 2
11 - 0.5
I can think of complicated and ugly ways using cursors and many lines of code, but I thought someone might have a more user friendly solution!
Many thanks for your time.
Matt
Thank you for providing ddl and sample data. I am confused by your expected output. Can you try to explain what you want? The business rules for the output is lost on me.
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