This is a variation of this question T-SQL Start and end date times from a single column except the event states may have multiple on or off states without a matching opposite state.
The question is how do I capture the start and end dates for the first "on" and next "off". In other words, capture the first COS (change of state) to "on" and the first COS to "off" for each item. This would be used to calculate a total runtime for the item.
Source:
Item EventDate Event
A 2011-10-03 00:01:00 On
A 2011-10-03 00:01:15 On
B 2011-10-03 00:01:00 On
A 2011-10-03 00:02:00 Off
A 2011-10-03 00:02:01 Off
C 2011-10-03 00:01:00 On
B 2011-10-03 00:02:00 Off
A 2011-10-03 00:02:02 On
C 2011-10-03 00:02:05 On
A 2011-10-03 00:02:07 Off
Output:
Item Start End
A 2011-10-03 00:01:00 2011-10-03 00:02:00
A 2011-10-03 00:02:02 2011-10-03 00:02:07
B 2011-10-03 00:01:00 2011-10-03 00:02:00
C 2011-10-03 00:01:00 2011-10-03 00:02:05
If you have SQL Server 2012 or later then you can use SQL Servers windowing function to get the desired results as follow:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[EventStates](
[Item] [varchar](1) NOT NULL,
[EventDate] [varchar](19) NOT NULL,
[Event] [varchar](3) NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
INSERT [dbo].[EventStates] ([Item], [EventDate], [Event]) VALUES (N'A', N'2011-10-03 00:01:00', N'On')
INSERT [dbo].[EventStates] ([Item], [EventDate], [Event]) VALUES (N'A', N'2011-10-03 00:01:15', N'On')
INSERT [dbo].[EventStates] ([Item], [EventDate], [Event]) VALUES (N'B', N'2011-10-03 00:01:00', N'On')
INSERT [dbo].[EventStates] ([Item], [EventDate], [Event]) VALUES (N'A', N'2011-10-03 00:02:00', N'Off')
INSERT [dbo].[EventStates] ([Item], [EventDate], [Event]) VALUES (N'A', N'2011-10-03 00:02:01', N'Off')
INSERT [dbo].[EventStates] ([Item], [EventDate], [Event]) VALUES (N'C', N'2011-10-03 00:01:00', N'On')
INSERT [dbo].[EventStates] ([Item], [EventDate], [Event]) VALUES (N'B', N'2011-10-03 00:02:00', N'Off')
INSERT [dbo].[EventStates] ([Item], [EventDate], [Event]) VALUES (N'A', N'2011-10-03 00:02:02', N'On')
INSERT [dbo].[EventStates] ([Item], [EventDate], [Event]) VALUES (N'C', N'2011-10-03 00:02:05', N'On')
INSERT [dbo].[EventStates] ([Item], [EventDate], [Event]) VALUES (N'A', N'2011-10-03 00:02:07', N'Off')
GO
;WITH StateChange
AS
(
SELECT E.[Item]
,E.[EventDate]
,E.[Event]
,( -- First determine if a state change to on has occurred.
CASE
WHEN E.[Event] = 'On' AND LAG(E.[Event], 1, NULL) OVER (PARTITION BY E.[Item] ORDER BY E.[EventDate] ASC) IS NULL THEN 1
WHEN E.[Event] = 'On' AND E.[Event] <> LAG(E.[Event], 1, NULL) OVER (PARTITION BY E.[Item] ORDER BY E.[EventDate] ASC) THEN 1
ELSE 0
END
) [StateChanged]
FROM EventStates E
), StateChangeGrouping
AS
(
SELECT [Item]
,[EventDate]
,[Event]
,[StateChanged]
,SUM([StateChanged]) OVER (PARTITION BY [Item] ORDER BY [EventDate] ASC) AS [GroupID]
FROM StateChange
), StateChangeRanked
AS
(
SELECT [Item]
,[EventDate]
,[Event]
,[StateChanged]
,[GroupID]
,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY [Item], GroupID, [Event] ORDER BY [EventDate]) AS TransitionRank
FROM StateChangeGrouping
)
SELECT [Item]
,MIN([EventDate]) AS [Start]
,MAX([EventDate]) AS [End]
,[GroupID]
FROM StateChangeRanked
WHERE GroupID > 0 AND TransitionRank = 1
GROUP BY [Item], GroupID
ORDER BY [Item], [Start]
Below is an implementation for SQL Server 2008.
;WITH EventID
AS
(
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY [Item] ORDER BY [EventDate]) RowNr
,[Item]
,[EventDate]
,[Event]
FROM [dbo].[EventStates]
), StateChange
AS
(
SELECT C.RowNr
,P.RowNr AS P_RowNr
,C.[Item]
,C.[EventDate]
,C.[Event]
,P.[Event] AS P_Event
,( -- First determine if a state change to on has occurred.
CASE
WHEN C.[Event] = 'On' AND P.[Event] IS NULL THEN 1
WHEN C.[Event] = 'On' AND C.[Event] <> P.[Event] THEN 1
ELSE 0
END
) [StateChanged]
FROM EventID C
LEFT OUTER JOIN EventID P ON C.Item = P.Item AND C.RowNr = P.RowNr + 1
), StateChangeGrouping
AS
(
SELECT ST1.[Item]
,ST1.[EventDate]
,ST1.[Event]
,ST1.[StateChanged]
,(
SELECT SUM([StateChanged])
FROM StateChange ST2
WHERE ST2.Item = ST1.Item AND ST2.RowNr <= ST1.RowNr
) AS GroupID
FROM StateChange ST1
), StateChangeRanked
AS
(
SELECT [Item]
,[EventDate]
,[Event]
,[StateChanged]
,[GroupID]
,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY [Item], GroupID, [Event] ORDER BY [EventDate]) AS TransitionRank
FROM StateChangeGrouping
)
SELECT [Item]
,MIN([EventDate]) AS [Start]
,MAX([EventDate]) AS [End]
,[GroupID]
FROM StateChangeRanked
WHERE GroupID > 0 AND TransitionRank = 1
GROUP BY [Item], GroupID
ORDER BY [Item], [Start]