Technique for turning time ranges into a graph

I have a bunch of data which is expressed in terms of start and stop dates, e.g.:<br /><br /><table border="1"
cellpadding="2"cellspacing="2" height="112" width="460"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><b>Member<br /></b></td><td
valign="top"><b>Start<br/></b></td><td valign="top"><b>Stop<br /></b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Fred<br /></td><td
valign="top">2007-01-01<br/></td><td valign="top">2007-05-01<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Joe<br /></td><td
valign="top">2005-05-04<br/></td><td valign="top">2007-04-01<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Freddie<br /></td><td
valign="top">2002-02-01<br/></td><td valign="top">2006-04-01<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">...<br /></td><td
valign="top">...<br/></td><td valign="top">...<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> And what I want is a graph over
timeshowing the number of members on each day.<br /><br /> Thus the input is rows with time ranges, and the output is a
scalarfor each time bucket.  The time bucket might be months, days, hours, or quarter hours. Such a data series could
thenbe loaded into a spreadsheet or otherwise graphed.<br /><br /> I've got a perl script that can do this.  But is
therea good and fast way to do this in the database?  If I had views with the scalar data, then I could do some more
interestingjoining like comparing member growth to advertising dollars spent, or calculating the ratios between members
andcustomer service calls.<br /><br /> It seems like a lot of data is inherently stored as time ranges.  How would you
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