Find new customers for every month

  • i have a customers log table, if a customer buys a product the custid, custname and dateof purchase will be inserted into the table. i need to find the new customers for every month. old customers may also do purchases in this month but i need to get the new customers only for every month..pls help

  • What have you tried so far? It would also help if you were to post the DDL for your table(s) and some sample data.

    Thanks

    John

  • You show a column 'custid' in your post. Do you have another table that contains 'Customer' data and 'custid'?

    If it was easy, everybody would be doing it!;)

  • if the sample data is like the following

    custid custname dateofpur

    1abc02/25/2008 12:00:00 AM

    2jkl02/26/2008 12:00:00 AM

    3abc03/01/2008 12:00:00 AM

    4xyz03/03/2008 12:00:00 AM

    5jkl04/03/2008 12:00:00 AM

    6xyz04/05/2008 12:00:00 AM

    7sss04/05/2008 12:00:00 AM

    8abc01/02/2008 12:00:00 AM

    9sss03/12/2008 12:00:00 AM

    the result should be like

    custid custname dateofpur

    8abc2008-01-02 00:00:00.000

    2jkl2008-02-26 00:00:00.000

    4xyz2008-03-03 00:00:00.000

    9sss2008-03-12 00:00:00.000

  • select *

    from

    MyTable

    inner join (select custname,

    min(dateOf) as Firstdate

    from MyTable

    Group by CustName

    ) FirstPurch

    ON MyTable.custname=FirstPurch.CustName

    and MyTable.DateOf=FirstPurch.FirstDate

    That naming is very wrong - that ID should never be called custID, since it doesn't tie to a customer - it ties to a purchase. At best - that should be the purchaseHistory table, which would make that the purchaseHistoryID.

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    Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?

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