Given a column of data resembling the following:
col
2
3
4
5
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
23
32
33
34
35
36
37
I need a query to find the contiguous ranges within this column, in
this case returning the result set:
start, end
2, 5
11, 19
23, 23
32, 37
I have one solution that joins the table against itself and does
(among other things) a subselect looking "not exists col +1" and "not
exists col -1" on the two instances of the table to find the start and
end. This is, as you might guess, is not very efficient (my actual
data is some 6 million+ rows) and I'm guessing there has to be
something more efficient with windowing or possibly grouping on min
and max (though I can't see how to make sure they are part of a
contiguous set). Anyone have any ideas?
--
Peter Hunsberger
