SQL help

[william humphrey]

exactly and works perfectly. Thanks. Now I just have to get the date
value that is less than that.

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Danny Lewkin <danny.lewkin at cognosis.be> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Is this what you mean:
>
> SELECT voyageID FROM voyages WHERE v_date_d = (SELECT MAX(v_date_d) FROM
> voyages) AND v_shipID = 189
>
>
> HTH,
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> On 03 Jan 2014, at 14:46, william humphrey <bill at bluewatermaritime.com>
> wrote:
>
> Bart
>
> SELECT voyageID FROM voyages WHERE MAX(v_date_d) AND  v_shipID = 189
>
> It doesn't like to mix with aggregate clause
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:48 AM, william humphrey
> <bill at bluewatermaritime.com> wrote:
>
> Bart
>
> Baring in mind what Ruslan said about not using RecId and seeing the
> method that Ivan showed me using ( ) I will try to do it with the
> date.  I will play around using vStudio and try to get it using the
> max date from the records meeting the search less than the date of the
> current record.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Bart Pietercil
> <bart.pietercil at cognosis.be> wrote:
>
> Multiple strategies come to mind to achieve what you are trying to do.
>
> 1) work with a creation_dt (timestamp default = npw)
> when looking for the previous your where condition could determine the value
> of the current creation_dt and take the max(creation_dt) from the records
> where creation_dt < current_creation_dt
> 2) work with a sequence that you maintain by yourself (probably easiest with
> triggers)
>
> hth
>
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> On 2 Jan 2014 at 10:18:05, Ivan Smahin (ivan_smahin at paradigmasoft.com)
> wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 1, 2014, at 10:28 PM, Jay Madren <jay at jaymadren.com> wrote:
>
> Something like this should work:
>
> SELECT voyageID FROM voyages WHERE RecID = (SELECT RecID - 1 FROM voyages
> WHERE voyageID = 'S1301')
>
>
> It is wrong because of potentially wholes in RecIDs.
>
> Example:
>
> Let we have an empty t1 table.
>
> INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ...
> INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ...
> INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ...
>
> SELECT RecID FROM t1;
> --
> 1
> 2
> 3
>
> Now,
> DELETE FROM t1 WHERE RecID = 2;
>
> SELECT RecID FROM t1;
> --
> 1
> 3
>
> RecID == 2 is marked as deleted record and you can not access it.
> "Virtually" it does not exist:
>
> SELECT RecID FROM t1 WHERE RecID = 2;
> --
> <empty result>
>
>
> So you should not rely on RecID comparison.
>
> The solution might be following:
>
> SELECT voyuageID FROM voyuages WHERE RecID < (SELECT RecID FROM voyuages
> WHERE voyuageID='S1301') ORDER BY RecID DESC LIMIT 1
>
> But it looks ugly and works pretty slow.
>
> I'm sure there is more elegant and proper solution if you describe exactly
> why do you need to get the previous "physical" record.
>
>
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