Question

I have a table in Oracle called quotes with two columns: date and value.

I would like to compare values for last entry and second last entry in the table.

In this example I would like to get dates for 13.1 and 11.1 in one line and the difference between the values for each date (10-5=5).

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Quotes Table:

Date – Value

13.1.2010 – 10

11.1.2010 – 5

10.1.2010 – 2

8.10.2010 – 1

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Edit:

I would like to have more complex table with one more column companyId. I need to get items for each company. Table would look like this:

Quotes Table:

Date – Value – CompanyId

13.1.2010 – 10 – 10

11.1.2010 – 5 – 10

10.1.2010 – 2 – 10

8.10.2010 – 1 – 10

12.1.2010 – 7 – 20

10.1.2010 – 3 – 20

9.1.2010 – 2 – 20

8.10.2010 – 2 – 20

I would like to get two lines in this case (but in general just get as many lines as the number of companies are) – one for each company that will return both dates and difference between newest value and second newest value.
So in this case it would return:

companyId 10 13.1 and 11.1 and 5 and another line like this:

companyId 20 12.1 and 10.1 and 4 ( 7-3=4).

Answer 1

SELECT  *, value - nextvalue AS diff
FROM    (
        SELECT  m.*, LEAD(value) OVER (ORDER BY date DESC) AS nextvalue
        FROM    mytable m
        ORDER BY
                date DESC
        )
WHERE   rownum = 1

Update:

To select results company-wise:

SELECT  value - nextvalue AS diff
FROM    (
        SELECT  m.*,
                LEAD(value) OVER (PARTITION BY companyId ORDER BY date DESC) AS nextvalue,
                ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY companyId ORDER BY date DESC) AS rn
        FROM    mytable m
        )
WHERE   rn = 1