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comparison query same field name multiple times

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MLHab306

Technical User
Nov 11, 2001
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Hi

I am trying to set up a comparison query.

for example date range

1/1/03 to 12/31/03
1/1/04 to 12/31/04
1/1/05 to 12/31/05

thanks for your help.

Mark
 
Perhaps a bit more information would be helpful here. What result are you trying to achieve? To find the records between two dates? To find the records for a particular year? Please give us sample data and sample results.

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If the people have some other way to identify them you might try that. Name does not make a good unique identifier or Index or Primary Key.

Distinct will eliminate duplicates.

If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.
 
What I am trying to do is do like a year end cpmparison report, comparing the same fields but with different date ranges in the same report.

Date range number of products sold total sales
1/1/02 to 12/31/02 1904 $100,403
1/1/03 to 12/31/03 2310 $98,000
1/1/04 to 12/31/04 2094 $200,000
etc

I would like to be able to compare date ranges whether by month or by ?
 
try select year(proddate) as prodyear, sum(prodqty) as qtytot, sum(prodvalue) as valtot from temp01 group by prodyear i have included some code below to show how that would be used

Code:
create cursor temp01 (proddate d, prodref c(7), prodqty n(6,0), prodprice n(6,2), prodvalue n(10,2))
index on proddate tag proddate

for i = -100 to -50
	insert into temp01 (proddate, prodref, prodqty, prodprice, prodvalue)	;
		values (date()+i, "PROD"+padl(i,3,"0"), 2, 2.50, 5.00)

	insert into temp01 (proddate, prodref, prodqty, prodprice, prodvalue)	;
		values (date()+i+365, "PROD"+padl(i,3,"0"), 1, 1.50, 1.50)

	insert into temp01 (proddate, prodref, prodqty, prodprice, prodvalue)	;
		values (date()+i+365+365, "PROD"+padl(i,3,"0"), 3, 3.00, 9.00)
endfor

select year(proddate) as prodyear, sum(prodqty) as qtytot, sum(prodvalue) as valtot from temp01 group by prodyear

Pete Bloomfield
Down Under
 
YOu could use a UNion query. Create a select query for each data range you want inthe final report and then union them together with Union All.

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