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jbbatts77
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Posted - 12/03/2012 :  11:13:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hello. I have the following table:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TempTable](
	[ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
	[TimeStamp] [datetime] NULL,
	[Direction] [nvarchar](5) NULL,
	[TimeOut] [datetime] NULL,
	[Name] [nvarchar](50) NULL)


When a person is checked into the system I create a record with a Name a current TimeStamp and TimeOut set to null. When a person is checked out of the system I create a record with a Name, a current TimeStamp and a current TimeOut.

My question is, what sql statement would generate all people currently checked into the system? Or is there a better way to handle this?

sunitabeck
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Posted - 12/03/2012 :  11:18:34  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You can query like shown below. However, you should have some type of CustomerID that is unique to each custoemer at each check in because more than one person can have the same name (and one person can check in and check out multiple times, perhaps?)
SELECT *
FROM   [dbo].[TempTable] a
WHERE  NOT EXISTS 
(
       SELECT *
       FROM   [dbo].[TempTable] b
       WHERE  a.name = b.name
              AND b.Direction = 'OUT'
)
AND a.Direction = 'IN';
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visakh16
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Posted - 12/03/2012 :  11:19:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
yep. you should be updating already added record for checkout rather than creating a new record.
this way you could just get list of persons currently checked in using a simple query like

SELECT *
FROM TempTable
WHERE TimeOut IS NULL


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