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From: Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: Finding missing values in sequence column
Date: 30 Dec 2010 18:49:49 GMT
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On 2010-12-30, Lukasz Brodziak <lukasz.brodziak@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with writing a select statement that would return
> records for which difference in values of this and following ID is
> bigger than 1. Example table
> ID      Data
> 1       Text
> 2       Text2
> 5       Text5
> 23     Text23
> 24     TXT
> 25     RRRR
>
> So I need to return rows with IDs 2,5,23.

SELECT id FROM Example EXCEPT SELECT id-1 FROM Example;

select * FROM Example WHERE id+1 NOT IN ( SELECT id FROM Example );


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