Well, this should be called data mining things. I don't know if Oracle Data Mining option is just coincidently named the same or it can really help you. 2006/4/21, Ethan Post <post.ethan@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Here is a problem. I have 300 nice pretty graphs. Some graphs are flat, some > show spikes and valleys, some show slow growth and slow decline. What would > be really nice is to find some easy way of grouping charts that likely have > correlation of some sort. > > For example, if I have a chart with a peak at 1am and 4am, it would be > grouped with other charts that show a spike or valley at 1am and 4am, since > they likely correlate. > > I am sure there must be some way to do this in PLSQL or SQL and I just > thought of this so I have not pondered a solution yet. Has anyone ever heard > of anything like this? My guess is I would profile the data for a chart, > then go look at all the other charts for the same "profile" and assign the > chart to a group within the current profile. A profiling the spikes and > valleys would be easy, but slow declines and increases, aka hills, would be > much harder to "see" pragmatically. > > Perhaps this is one for Joe Celko. > > > - Ethan > > -- Best regards, Alex Gorbachev -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l