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Article #207Re: need advice about sql for data mining
From: Isaac
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:56
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:56
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Maxim Shiryaev wrote: > Hi. > > I think you need a SP here. > > for > select date > from purchase > > union all > > select date > from sales > > group by 1 > into :d > /* now you have all the dates here */ > do begin > > select sum(purchase_line.qty), sum(purchase_line.price * > purchase_line.qty), > from purchase > left join purchase_line on purchase_line.purchase_id = > purchase.purchase_id > where > purchase.date = :d > into :purchase_qty, :purchase_amount; > > select sum(sales_line.qty), sum(sales_line.price * sales_line.qty) > from sales > left join sales_line on purchase_line.sales_id = sales.sales_id > where > sales.date = :d > into :sales_qty, :sales_amount; > > /* be prepared to deal with NULLs in qty and amount here */ > > /* calculate whatever needed */ > > end > > And I would even combine both purchases and sales into single table with one > additional field like SIGN with +1 | -1 values to differentioate between two > types of operations. So you can create an index on date and get fast GROUP > BY speed. If so you could make the result in one pass ordering by dates and > summing appropiate variable depending on sign. > > > Maxim. > > > > > > > Thanks , but I did not understand how I can make the sign field
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