On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 2:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, for the total deficiencies I am then splitting up the total into > aging groups, eg <30, 30-60, 60-90, and >90 days old. The query for that > looks like the below. But before I paste it in, I would like to optimize > it, if I could do so with a group by clause I most certainly would, but I > don't see how I can BECAUSE OF THE AGING BREAKDOWN:
[one sub-query per age-range] > AND dt.days_old_start_date < {d '2002-10-07'} > ) AS def_count_less_30, > AND dt.days_old_start_date >= {d '2002-10-07'} > AND dt.days_old_start_date < {d '2002-09-07'} > ) AS def_count_30_60, Could you not define a function age_range(date) to return the relevant range text, then group on that text? I've used that before. -- Richard Huxton ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster