I would like to point out that I can only think of fraudulent purposes to report retail turns leaving out net credit days. You do not get to leave out "returns day" on a key component of valuing the worth of a retail establishment. Also, since he didn't spec out SQL, I'm surprised someone hasn't submitted a perl solution to the second one yet. From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Fitzjarrell Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 12:22 PM To: niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l Subject: Re: Query writing That's cheap. I was expecting more like 25,000 hours. :) David Fitzjarrell On Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:16 AM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I''ll do it for $25 per hour (admittedly you might find it takes me 5000 hours to do it :) ) On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Walker, Jed S <Jed_Walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: What is the rate per hour? From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Arif Gulzar Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 1:47 PM To: oracle-l Subject: Query writing Please forward me following 2 quires. Thanks in advance. Q1: Given the following table of transactions in a cash register: id| trade_time | amount -- ---------------- ------ 1| 06/16/2013 11:43| 52.00 2| 06/16/2013 11:50| 142.74 3| 06/16/2013 14:21| -43.89 4| 06/17/2013 12:50| 36.85 5| 06/17/2013 13:40|-523.58 please write a query which selects net daily turnovers (arithmetical sums of all transactions for a day) for all days when these turnovers are positive. Q2: Given the following two tables: clients (id (PK), name) transactions (id (PK), client_id, trans_date, debit, credit, comment) transactions.client_id references clients.id <http://clients.id/> please write a query which selects the balance for ALL clients, even if they have no transactions. (Assume initial balances to be zeros). Sample table contents: clients: id name -- ------ 1 John 2 Mary 3 Alex transactions: id client_id trans_date debit credit comment -- --------- ---------- ------- ------- ----------------- 1 | 1 06/16/2013 NULL 1000.00 SALARY 2 | 1 06/18/2013 516.43 0.00 MOB PHONE PAYMENT 3 | 2 06/16/2013 NULL 1000.00 SALARY 4 | 2 06/18/2013 200.00 NULL INTERNET PAYMENT 5 | 2 06/18/2013 500.00 0.00 MOB PHONE PAYMENT -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info/