> Not a clue.  I didn't write the schema.

I know, I asked the OP.

RBS

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 4:16 PM Keith Medcalf <kmedc...@dessus.com> wrote:

>
> On Monday, 21 October, 2019 08:47, Bart Smissaert <
> bart.smissa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Shouldn't there be field MODE_ID in the Employee table?
>
> Not a clue.  I didn't write the schema.  Perhaps there is another table
> called MODATES that has a link to the employee (EMPLOYEE_ID) and a link to
> the mode (MODE_ID) together with the start and end dates to which that
> linkage applies.  And yet another table that called CIDATES that has a link
> the employee (EMPLOYEE_ID) and to the city (CITY_ID) together with the
> start and end dates to which that linkage applies.  (In which case there is
> still no solution since the problem is inadequately stated.
>
> Also, what about the people that walk except when it is raining and then
> they take the bus unless in either case they wake up late and drive
> themselves in their own car.  Except of course on Tuesday when the
> neighbour is going to the supermarket at the same time as they happen to be
> going to work so they hitch a ride with the neighbour in the neighbours car
> so they can smoke a phatty on the way, unless it is the second Tuesday of
> the month in which case they ride their bike because it is "Patch Tuesday"
> and, you know, just to be safe.  Except of course if there was an
> earthquake in which case they just stay home.
>
> The point being that there is no way to solve the problem stated using the
> given information, and no way to correct for the missing information since
> one has no clue what it is or how complicated it is.
>
> >On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 3:44 PM Keith Medcalf <kmedc...@dessus.com>
> wrote:
>
> >> On Monday, 21 October, 2019 08:31, Winfried <codecompl...@free.fr>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Using the following tables, I need to find how employees from each
> >> city come to work.
> >>
> >> >====== Employees table:
> >> >EMPLOYEE_ID | CITY_ID
> >> >Cities table:
> >> >CITY_ID | CITY_TXT
> >> >Mode table:
> >> >MODE_ID | MODE_TXT
> >> >
> >> >This is the type of output I need to get ultimately:
> >> >CITY | WALKING | CYCLING | PUBLIC TRANSIT | CAR | OTHER
> >> >City1 | 15% | 5% | 50% [ 25% | 5%
> >>
> >> No amount of queries or magical incantations will get you the results
> >you
> >> are asking for because there is no way to get from MODE_TXT to
> >CITY_TXT.
> >> That is, there is no way to compose the rest of the query as indicated
> >by
> >> the ... to obtain the data required to solve the problem:
> >>
> >> select EMPLOYEE_ID, CITY_TXT, MODE_TXT
> >>   from EMPLOYEES, CITIES, MODE
> >>  where ....
> >>
> --
> The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says
> a lot about anticipated traffic volume.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> sqlite-users mailing list
> sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org
> http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
>
_______________________________________________
sqlite-users mailing list
sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org
http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

Reply via email to