Alright, let\'s say I have a table that looks like this:
ID | DATE
2 | 2010-08-12
2 | 2010-08-16
2 | 2010-08-17
2 | 2010-12-21
2 | 2010-12-22
I will not put here the ID as I see it is irrelevant in the query. If you wish you will put it later. This is a MSSQL query.
select tb1.date as startdate,dateadd(d,-1,tb2.date) as enddate
from the_table tb1
join the_table tb2 on tb2.date>tb1.date
left join the_table tb3 on tb1.date
It can be easily translated for other DB types.