Hi All,
I have a query I need to run but can't think how to get this working so I am
hoping someone can advise.
I have a table which logs start and end times of Scheduled jobs. It includes
for simplicity a `DayID`, `StartDateTime` and `EndDateTime` column. Both
`StartDateTime` and `EndDateTime` are 'datetime' datatypes.
What I need to do is find all times in a day when there was nothing running
on the system - so all times which do not occur between any of the
`StartDateTime` and `EndDateTime` values for a particular day.
A simple example, if the table had values
*DayId StartDateTime EndDateTime
1 2010-02-26 16:40:27 2010-02-26 16:41:27
1 2010-02-26 16:41:21 2010-02-26 16:45:57
1 2010-02-26 16:47:01 2010-02-26 16:49:21
1 2010-02-26 16:49:27 2010-02-26 16:49:55
*I can see the system was free between 16:45:57 and 16:47:01 on 26th
February 2010 and this is what I would need the query to return only working
with a lot more data. Any ideas?
Thank you in advance for any help, suggestions. This is currently on a MySQL
5.1 system.
Regards
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John Daisley
Certified MySQL 5 Database Administrator
Certified MySQL 5 Developer
Cognos BI Developer
Telephone: +44 (0)7918 621621
Email: john.daisley@stripped
