Hello!
I fail to understand what you are attempting to do.
What does your table represent and what output you expect to have..?
To my best knowledge this (select meter1 where sampledate = sampledate + interval '1 days') is not valid SQL so could you please explain in english the info
you want to obtain from your table?
Best,
Oliveiros
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Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 4:16 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] can a function take a column name or is there another solution
I have a table with sampledate, meter1, meter2...etc
I am trying to develop a function or query
where:
select sampledate, (meter1 - (select meter1 where sampledate = sampledate + interval '1 days')) as consumption from mytable;
Any ideas how to make this work?
Mark King