Calculate Time Difference Between Two Rows

Question

I have a table that contains the following:

DataDate                 Value
2010-03-01 08:31:32.000  100
2010-03-01 08:31:40.000  110
2010-03-01 08:31:42.000          


        

Answer 1

A little tweak on Quassnoi's query if you prefer not to use a Subselect would be:

SELECT
      DATEDIFF(second, LAG(dataDate) OVER (ORDER BY dataDate), dataDate)
FROM  rows
WHERE LAG(dataDate) OVER (ORDER BY dataDate) IS NOT NULL

Answer 2

WITH    rows AS
        (
        SELECT  *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY DataDate) AS rn
        FROM    mytable
        )
SELECT  DATEDIFF(second, mc.DataDate, mp.DataDate)
FROM    rows mc
JOIN    rows mp
ON      mc.rn = mp.rn - 1

In SQL Server 2012+:

SELECT  DATEDIFF(second, pDataDate, dataDate)
FROM    (
        SELECT  *,
                LAG(dataDate) OVER (ORDER BY dataDate) pDataDate
        FROM    rows
        ) q
WHERE   pDataDate IS NOT NULL