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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    SQLRNNR (10/31/2011)


    L' Eomot Inversé (10/31/2011)


    Thomw (10/31/2011)


    Thanks! I noticed that the thread has 'drifted' after my post and have edited to at least not look too lame LOL

    Rather than...

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Thanks! I noticed that the thread has 'drifted' after my post and have edited to at least not look too lame LOL

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
    (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    <tosses two cents into the pot>

    As someone who has been assigned different applications and systems with minimal training I have spent a great deal of time in forums and have...

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
    (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

  • RE: Finding previous record based on a single common field.

    aahhh... Got it. thanks for answering the n00b question.:-)

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
    (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

  • RE: Finding previous record based on a single common field.

    Thank you Mr Magoo & Wayne Works like a charm.

    I didn't realize that the sort order when pulling from 'two' tables made a difference. Is this because of...

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
    (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

  • RE: Finding previous record based on a single common field.

    Well didn't really progress any closer to the solution then what you have already given me, but I did learn some about Apply and table Variables today. This is...

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
    (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

  • RE: Finding previous record based on a single common field.

    This is what I get when I run the query against the test data

    2010-04-22 07:27:00.000M01USDPUSDP7 LAKES

    2010-04-22 08:22:00.000M12USDPUSCP

    2010-04-22 09:21:00.000M01USDPUSDP7 LAKES

    2010-04-22 09:42:00.000M12USDPUSCP

    2010-04-22 10:02:00.000M01USDPUSDP7 LAKES

    2010-04-22 11:44:00.000M12USDPUSCP

    2010-04-22 11:45:00.000M01USDPUSDP7 LAKES

    It seems to be only referencing...

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
    (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

  • RE: Finding previous record based on a single common field.

    OK, let's try this again<G>

    Hello,

    I work with emergency response vehicles and we track what they are doing by unit status codes. These records are in a single table in...

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
    (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

  • RE: Finding previous record based on a single common field.

    mister.magoo

    Thank you for the reply. Let me review the links in WayneS' sig to ensure I'm posting the test data correctly and will then put some up.

    thom

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
    (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

  • RE: Finding previous record based on a single common field.

    WayneS

    Thank you for the review of you forum's practices. I apologize for not lurking longer before posting. I had gone back and forth on whether to post in this...

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
    (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

  • RE: how to divide by number of days in the month

    Thanks Matt, corrected the error and all is good. After I get this report out of the way I'm going to work on your previous suggestion. It looks...

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
    (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

  • RE: how to divide by number of days in the month

    Matt,

    I'll take what you suggest and give it a try. Again thank you for your time and patience with my basic questions.

    Thom

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
    (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

  • RE: how to divide by number of days in the month

    I've now built a case stm which works standing alone, but fails when part of the query. Either I'm missing something simple, or it doesn't work like this. Could...

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
    (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

  • RE: how to divide by number of days in the month

    Matt

    Thank you for the quick reply. I should of defined my fields a little better. It's not a timestamp. This is how the Dispatch_Month field is built in...

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    "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." Vorian Atreides
    (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)

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