Re: How to join several selects - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Zac
Subject Re: How to join several selects
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In response to How to join several selects  (Josep Sanmartí <josep.sanmarti@openwired.net>)
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Josep Sanmartí wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a 'big' problem:
> I have the following table users(name, start_time, end_time), a new row 
> is set whenever a user logs into a server.  I want to know how many 
> users have logged in EVERYDAY between 2 different dates. The only idea 
> that I have is making several select (one for each day):
>    SELECT COUNT(name) FROM users WHERE start_time between "startDate" 
> and "startDate+1"
>    SELECT COUNT(name) FROM users WHERE start_time between "startDate+1" 
> and "startDate+2"
>    ...
> I would like to know if its possible to make it in 1 sql statement or 
> just which is the best efficient way to solve it.
> By the way, I use Postgres 7.4.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
SELECTdate_trunc('day', start_time) as day, count(name)
FROMusers
WHEREstart_time between "startDate" AND "endDate"
GROUP BYday;


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