Re: SQL question

Hi !

If you want all intervalls between the dates of a date-column for all rows then use this:

select next.date_col - max(previous.date_col) from your_tab next, your_tab previous
where previous.date_col < next.date_col
group by next.date_col;

U will get the result in days.

Greez,
Angelo.

Marco Nedermeijer wrote:
>
> I'm trying to create a sql-statement to do the following:
>
> i want to substract a date-field from a date-field of a previous record. my
> guess is that i need to use ROWNUM for this.
>
> Can someone help me to create this statement ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marco Nedermeijer
> m.n.nedermeijer_at_rtd.nl
 

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