Re: newbie: how to return one iteration *per unique date (DAY!)* in a timestamp column?

From: Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:20:23 +0000
Subject: Re: newbie: how to return one iteration *per unique date (DAY!)* in a timestamp column?
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Govinda wrote: > .. so my thought is to want to do nested query(ies), where: > *within* the while loop of the first recordset (which is now > successfully returning just rows with unique dates), I do other > query(ies) which will (in their own code block) find all rows of the > date we are iterating.. so I can, for example, count number of records > for each unique date, do math/statistics, etc. I had to do something similar in code of my own a little while ago, and got some very good guidance on Stack Overflow. Here's the thread, you might find it helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/946214/one-sql-query-or-many-in-a-loop The user whose answer is marked as the correct one ("Quassnoi") also writes a helpful blog on SQL. You should be able to find the blog by clicking on the username. Ben

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