File store (was Re: Salutations)

Al B. Snell alaric@alaric-snell.com
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:35:39 +0000 (GMT)


On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Bill Gribble wrote:

> Right, but that doesn't help you generate a graph of weekly bank
> balances over 5 years.  This is a hard problem, and it's one I think
> needs to be addressed.

Sure it does...

SELECT SUM(amount),date_to_week_num(date) AS week FROM splits WHERE
account=<account ID here> GROUP BY week;

That will produce a "total change" for each week, eg a delta series
instead of a time series, so you have to do some addition in software.

> 
> b.g.
> 

ABS

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