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handle query

PiyaKaGhar

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December 27, 2014 at 12:59 pm

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HI
for eg. I have a table which has 'products', different 'Phases' of manufacture (Design, Sew, Polish, Wash, Ready, Clean, and many more), this Phases have 'Start date' and 'End date' for each phase, products can have any phase. see attached how the I want the result. How can I write query to get this output.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 1

The answer would be to convert your string-based dates to real ones to get the date differentials and sums and then apply either a Cross Tab or Pivot to it all. You can see an example of how to do both at the following URL.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 2

I am curious how 2004/08/28 - 2004/08/24 = 4 and 2004/08/31 - 2004/08/31 = 1. Seems to me the result of the first should be 5 OR the result of the second should be 0. Obviously the rules are different for each as presented.