SQL to determine minimum sequential days of access?

Question

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

Answer 1

You could use a recursive CTE (SQL Server 2005+):

WITH recur_date AS (
        SELECT t.userid,
               t.creationDate,
               DATEADD(day, 1, t.created) 'nextDay',
               1 'level' 
          FROM TABLE t
         UNION ALL
        SELECT t.userid,
               t.creationDate,
               DATEADD(day, 1, t.created) 'nextDay',
               rd.level + 1 'level'
          FROM TABLE t
          JOIN recur_date rd on t.creationDate = rd.nextDay AND t.userid = rd.userid)
   SELECT t.*
    FROM recur_date t
   WHERE t.level = @numDays
ORDER BY t.userid