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ljp099
Yak Posting Veteran
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 Posted - 2011-06-22 : 03:38:59
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| I need to perform a query of books to First select the most recently published book (datepublished (date)) where genre (genre (varchar) equals mystery, then from this most recently published date, I then need to select all books in the same genre for the last 12 months.@mostrecent = Select datepublished From Books Where genre = 'mystery' Order By datepublished Select * from Books where datepublished < @mostrecent AND datepublished > @mostrecent - 12 months And genre = 'mystery' Can I join these into a single select? Right now Im using a loop statement in my C# code and it is killing the performance.Thanks for any help. |
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madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator
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Posted - 2011-07-08 : 05:41:22
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| declare @datepublished =(select max(datepublished) From Books Where genre = 'mystery' )Select * from Books where datepublished < @mostrecent AND datepublished > dateadd(month,-12,@datepublished) And genre = 'mystery' MadhivananFailing to plan is Planning to fail |
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Sub select?