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Our business has multiple cost/profit centers that I call business units,
these are in a table called buinessunits.  We also have a table that holds a
list of services that are offerred by a business.  Each business unit has
many services it offers; 1 businees unit => Many Services. We want to be
able to query the cost/revenue/profit generated by each business unit and by
each service.  The problem is that it is possible that the service can be
switched to a different business unit, and then possibly back to the
original later on.  I've looked at multiple configurations, but have not
found a design that I feel is good so far.  Need to somehow track when a
particular service was associated with various businessunits.  If you want
more info, I can publish the tables for you. This same type of problem
exists in at least two other areas of this database we are developing.
Please help.

Kind Regards,
 -Ryan


-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org]
On Behalf Of ogjunk-pgjedan@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:57 AM
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Order by YYYY MM DD in reverse chrono order trouble


Hello,

I'd love to be able to do that, but I cannot just ORDER BY uu.add_date,
because I do not have uu.add_date in the SELECT part of the statement.
The reason I don't have it there is because I need distinct YYYY MM DD
values back. Is there a trick that I could use to make this more elegant?

Thanks,
Otis


--- Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com> wrote:
> Is there some reason you can't do this:
>
> SELECT DISTINCT
>   date_part('year', uu.add_date),  date_part('month', uu.add_date),
>   date_part('day', uu.add_date)
>
>   FROM uus INNER JOIN ui ON uus.user_id=ui.id INNER JOIN uu ON
>   ui.id=uu.user_id
>   WHERE uus.x_id=1
>
>   ORDER BY
>     uu.add_date DESC;
>
> This might be faster, as you only have to sort on one field, and I
> think it should give the desired results
>
> ogjunk-pgjedan@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am trying to select distinct dates and order them in the reverse
> >chronological order.  Although the column type is TIMESTAMP, in this
> >case I want only YYYY, MM, and DD back.
> >
> >I am using the following query, but it's not returning dates back in
> >the reverse chronological order:
> >
> >SELECT DISTINCT
> >  date_part('year', uu.add_date),  date_part('month', uu.add_date),
> >  date_part('day', uu.add_date)
> >
> >FROM uus INNER JOIN ui ON uus.user_id=ui.id INNER JOIN uu ON
> >ui.id=uu.user_id WHERE uus.x_id=1
> >
> >ORDER BY
> >date_part('year', uu.add_date), date_part('month', uu.add_date),
> >date_part('day',  uu.add_date) DESC;
> >
> >
> >This is what the above query returns:
> >
> > date_part | date_part | date_part
> >-----------+-----------+-----------
> >      2004 |         2 |         6
> >      2004 |         4 |        20
> >(2 rows)
> >
> >
> >I am trying to get back something like this:
> >2004 4 20
> >2004 4 19
> >2004 2 6
> >...
> >
> >My query is obviously wrong, but I can't see the mistake.  I was
> >wondering if anyone else can see it.  Just changing DESC to ASC, did
> >not work.
> >
> >Thank you!
> >Otis
> >
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