I'm trying to write a query to process a single table that looks like this:
record_id item_id part_id part_length
----------- ------- -------- ------------
1 0 0 123.12
2 0 0 123.09
3 0 1 231.24
4 0 1 239.14
5 1 0 45.91
6 1 0 46.12
7 1 1 62.24
8 1 1 59.40
which is basically a table of inaccurate length measurements of some parts of some items recorded multiple times (not twice, actually each part has 100s of measurements). With a single select, I want to get a result like this:
record_id item_id part_id unit part_length_ratio
----------- ------- -------- ----- ----------------
1 0 0 1 123.12 / 231.24
2 0 0 1 123.09 / 239.14
3 0 1 0 231.24 / 123.12
4 0 1 0 239.14 / 123.09
5 1 0 1 45.91 / 62.24
6 1 0 1 46.12 / 59.40
7 1 1 0 62.24 / 45.91
8 1 1 0 59.40 / 46.12
which is basically selecting each part of an item as the unit and calculates the ratio of the length of other parts of the same item to this unit while matching the measurement times. I wrote a script which computes this kind of table but would like to do it with sql. I can understand if you fail to understand the question :)
for each item i
for each part unit of i
for each part other of i
if unit != other
print i.id other.part_id unit.part_id other.length / unit.length