SQL Query Creating Start and End Dates

Question

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         


        

Answer 1

These two links will give you a rough idea.

• Date Range in MySQL
• Query for Data Range in SQL

Answer 2

if you have serialize id like ( 1,2,3,4,5,..) then you can get the above with this query with 1 extra data at last but you can omit that the folloowing is the mysql query

SELECT startdate, ( select startdate - INTERVAL 1 DAY from tester a where a.id = b.id +1) as enddate FROM tester b

Answer 3

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<tb3.date and tb3.date<tb2.date
where tb3.date is null

It can be easily translated for other DB types.