Re: nearest value question on stackoverflow

hi Jennie, thanks for spending time on this! won't LIMIT only give one record? i need one record per event.. so i think the "insert into" command would need to be repeatedly called until every single event got stored (which would take forever)? sorry if i'm missing something On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Ying Zhang wrote:

Maybe I’m thinking in a too simple way, but if you store the intermediate results in a table, you can use LIMIT 1:

CREATE TABLE t1 (svcmon int); -- assume svcmon is an INT insert into t1 SELECT svcmon FROM person_table AS z WHERE a.yr = z.yr AND a.person_id = z.person_id ORDER BY abs( z.svcmon - a.svcmon ) LIMIT 1;

Using TEMP TABLE might give you a bit speed up, but then you need to put them in one transaction.

Jennie

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On Jun 13, 2015, at 07:47 , Anthony Damico wrote:

any ideas on this? thanks!

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Anthony Damico wrote:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30641876/monetdb-sql-method-to-locate-or...

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i'm thinking i can do this with some costly self-join, but i'd

appreciate any other eyes on the problem

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