Re: join on next row - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Justin Lintz
Subject Re: join on next row
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Msg-id 99edfc5e0606212325n1a564767o3ff43c92a6009a49@mail.gmail.com
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In response to join on next row  (Sim Zacks <sim@compulab.co.il>)
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what about putting a limit of 1 on your select statement, so you will just get the first event greater then the initial date for the employee?

On 6/18/06, Sim Zacks <sim@compulab.co.il> wrote:
I am having brain freeze right now and was hoping someone could help me
with a (fairly) simple query.

I need to join on the next row in a similar table with specific criteria.

I have a table with events per employee.
I need to have a query that gives per employee each event and the event
after it if it happened on the same day.

The Events table structure is:

EventID
Employee
EventDate
EventTime
EventType

I want my query resultset to be
Employee,EventDate(1),EventTime(1),EventType(1),EventTime(2),EventType(2)
Where Event(2) is the first event of the employee that took place after
the other event.

Example
EventID Employee        EventDate       EventTime       EventType
1       John            6/15/2006       7:00            A
2       Frank           6/15/2006       7:15            B
3       Frank           6/15/2006       7:17            C
4       John            6/15/2006       7:20            C
5       Frank           6/15/2006       7:25            D
6       John            6/16/2006       7:00            A
7       John            6/16/2006       8:30            R

Expected Results
John, 6/15/2006, 7:00, A, 7:20, C
Frank, 6/15/2006, 7:15, B, 7:17, C
Frank, 6/15/2006, 7:17, C, 7:25, D
John, 6/16/2006, 7:00, A, 8:30, R

To get this result set it would have to be an inner join on employee and
date where the second event time is greater then the first. But I don't
want the all of the records with a greater time, just the first event after.

Thank You
Sim

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