Re: Compare rows, SEMI-SUMMARY

Per Josh's recommendation to implement a Vertical Child Table I came
up with 3 possible tables to handle the 3 possible value types: varchar,
numeric and bigint.  Each table has 7 columns: 1 to denote the time the
data was collected, 4 which identify where the data came from, 1 to
tell me the value name and the last being the value itself.

        OLD        NEW
tables        1        3
columns        642        7 each
indexes        ~1200        39
views        37        ?
rows        1700-3000    30,000
query on table    0.01 sec    0.06 sec
query on view    0.02 sec    ?

Not too bad.  Guess there were a few 0's and NULL's out there, eh?

642 * 1,700    = 1,091,400 cells
3 * 7 * 30,000 =   630,000 cells
                    461,400 NULL's and 0's using the big 'ol table

I can get around in this setup, however, I would appreciate some help
in recreating my views.  The views use to be there simply as an initial
filter and to hide all the 0's and NULL's.  If I can't do this I will
be revisiting and testing possibly hundreds of programs and scripts.

Any takers?

Greg

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