• b ghanekar (3/6/2013)


    I think the window functions should be of help here.

    Please repost the data I am not able to get the data you have posted.

    The fourth post on this thread has a .txt attachment which contains the ddl and dml and it works just fine. I'd be very interested to see how window functions might be used in a solution.

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