Re: SQLRPGLE - max count -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: SQLRPGLE - max count
From: mlazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:52:12 -0500
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Booth,

The "easy" way to do it is to concatenate DATE and NAME and group by that value. The "more sophisticated" way would be to use one of the newer OLAP functions, like RANK.

-mark

On 11/28/2016 7:50 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

This seems simple enough but it has me flummoxed.

I have a file with three fields of interest to me: Ordered by Date, Name, Time. I want to know what is the maximum number of rows there will be for every Date/Name group. What is the max number of slots I have to allow for the various Times listed for each Date/Name group?

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