September 3, 2014 at 10:57 am
I have a table with 3 relevant columns
col 1 col 2 col 3
A date/timestamp line counter
A date/timestamp line counter
B date/timestamp line counter
I need to select only the A group from column 1 and sort it ascending by the value in column 2.
The line counter in column 3 needs to be updated and it is sequential based on the timestamp.
So the line counter value for the oldest A timestamp would be 1 and the second oldest would be 2.
Does this make sense? I have no experience with looping, so any help would be appreciated.
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September 3, 2014 at 11:04 am
Today to many row_number questions
declare @sample table(id varchar(1),
dt datetime,
line_counter int)
insert into @sample values('A','01/01/2013',null),('A','01/01/2014',null),('B','01/01/2013',null)
select id,dt,row_number() over (partition by id order by dt asc) as line_counter from @sample
September 3, 2014 at 11:23 am
I should have said this is running on an old SQL Server 2000 box. Will your solution still work?
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September 3, 2014 at 11:36 am
declare @sample table(id varchar(1),
dt datetime,
line_counter int)
insert into @sample values('A','01/01/2013',null),('A','01/01/2014',null),('B','01/01/2013',null)
,('A','01/01/2012',null)
select ID,dt,(select COUNT(*) + 1 from @sample t2 where
t1.id = t2.id
and t1.dt > t2.dt) as line_counter
from @sample t1
order by line_counter
September 3, 2014 at 11:42 am
ROW_NUMBER won't work on SQL Server 2000.
You could use a running total solution and the fastest is the quirky update. You can find different type of solutions in the following article: http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/68467/
Try to understand any method that you choose and come back if you have questions.
September 3, 2014 at 4:37 pm
Thanks Luis. I took some code from the link and tweaked it. It seems to be working. For this small fix, a cursor did the job.
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