>I guess the simplest way to do this, assuming you can weed out the holidays, >would be to just run a query that gets all the product sales over the last 5 >days, ordered by productID, then SalesDate. Loop over the results tracking >the product id and the numSales for each day. If the product matches all the >criteria (i.e. each subsequent days sales are greater than the previous), >add it to your list of products to return. > >This can be troublesome if you are dealing with a huge record set. > > >> Want to also mention that that I'm..err I mean the DBA is avoiding >> creating a new table and running a nightly batch query that inserts >> products with a trend because backtesting is important. >>
What about trying to calculate the number of days sales growth occured? I'm trying to avoid looping around everything because the answer isn't explicit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Protect Your PC from viruses, hackers, spam and more. Buy PC-cillin with Easy Installation & Support http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=61 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:149679 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
