The following User History table contains one record for every day a given user has accessed a website (in a 24 hour UTC period). It has many thousands of r
The answer is obviously:
SELECT DISTINCT UserId
FROM UserHistory uh1
WHERE (
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM UserHistory uh2
WHERE uh2.CreationDate
BETWEEN uh1.CreationDate AND DATEADD(d, @days, uh1.CreationDate)
) = @days OR UserId = 52551
EDIT:
Okay here's my serious answer:
DECLARE @days int
DECLARE @seconds bigint
SET @days = 30
SET @seconds = (@days * 24 * 60 * 60) - 1
SELECT DISTINCT UserId
FROM (
SELECT uh1.UserId, Count(uh1.Id) as Conseq
FROM UserHistory uh1
INNER JOIN UserHistory uh2 ON uh2.CreationDate
BETWEEN uh1.CreationDate AND
DATEADD(s, @seconds, DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, uh1.CreationDate), 0))
AND uh1.UserId = uh2.UserId
GROUP BY uh1.Id, uh1.UserId
) as Tbl
WHERE Conseq >= @days
EDIT:
[Jeff Atwood] This is a great fast solution and deserves to be accepted, but Rob Farley's solution is also excellent and arguably even faster (!). Please check it out too!