That's it! You are absolutely amazing. I owe you again.
I knew it need to be partitioned but I couldn't figure out how to.
Thanks again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chelur Jayadas
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x38551072.[Email address protected]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 4:39 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: sql help

Here is the corrected SQL. The first one did not
give the latest promotion date based on a job code.


SELECT b.empid,
b.jdate,
b.job
FROM (
SELECT a.empid,
a.jdate,
a.job,
ROW_NUMBER()
OVER (PARTITION BY empid,job ORDER BY jdate DESC )
promo_rnk
FROM (
SELECT empid,
jdate,
job,
LEAD(job,1,job)
OVER(PARTITION BY empid ORDER BY jdate DESC )
prev_job
FROM TEST_EMP
) a
WHERE job <> prev_job
) b
WHERE job = 450
AND promo_rnk = 1
;


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Chirco
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x13527297.[Email address protected]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:30 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: sql help

Here is my dilemma. I have the table like below



EMPID DATE JOB

355 8/9/2003 450

355 9/18/2004 440

355 2/7/2005 450

355 8/18/2006 440

355 11/25/2006 440



What I need to get is somebody's last promotion date. So if I want to
see when this person was last promoted to job 440 I want to see
8/18/2006, not 11/25/2006 or 9/19/2004. Or if I want to see when this
person was last promoted to job 450 I would expect to see 2/7/2005. I
can't figure out how to query this data.

Thanks for any help.





Jeff





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