--- Bob Singleton <bsingleton@ibss.net> wrote:

  

Revisiting a Time In Status query I received help on - I'm trying to 
narrow down a subset of data I return for analysis.

Given a statusLog as entityId, statusId, timestamp that might look 
something like

entityId | statusId | timestamp
--------------------------------------------
001      | HLD      | 2007-06-14 11:07:35.93
001      | RDY      | 2007-06-15 11:07:35.93
001      | USE      | 2007-06-16 11:07:35.93
001      | RDY      | 2007-06-17 11:07:35.93
001      | MNT      | 2007-06-18 11:07:35.93

I need to pull for a given span of time - say 2007-06-16 00:00:00.01 
(let me call it startTime)  to 2007-06-17 23:59:59.99 (call it
endTime) 
in such a way that rows with a timestamp between startTime and
endTime 
AND the latest record prior to or equal to startTime are returned. In

the above simplified example, only the second and third rows would be

returned.

A colleague suggested a temp table, but I'm unsure how to iterate
until 
I pass the startTime and then write the _previous_ and all subsequent

rows to a temp table, stopping when I pass the endTime parameter.

Any hints?

Thanks!
Bob Singleton

    

couldn't you use the simple query:

select * from sometable
where timestamp between
  (select max(timestamp) from sometable where timestamp <= minTime)
  and maxTime