Help in correcting the SQL - sql

Question

I am trying to solve this query. I have the following data:
Input
Date Id Value
25-May-2011 1 10
26-May-2011 1 10
26-May-2011 2 10
27-May-2011 1 20
27-May-2011 2 20
28-May-2011 1 10
I need to query and output as:
Output
FromDate ToDate Id Value
25-May-2011 26-May-2011 1 10
26-May-2011 26-May-2011 2 10
27-May-2011 27-May-2011 1 20
28-May-2011 28-May-2011 1 10
I tried this sql but I'm not getting the correct result:
SELECT START_DATE, END_DATE, A.KEY, B.VALUE FROM
(
SELECT MIN(DATE) START_DATE, KEY, VALUE
FROM
KEY_VALUE
GROUP
BY KEY,VALUE
) A INNER JOIN
(
SELECT MAX(DATE) END_DATE, KEY, VALUE
FROM
KEY_VALUE
GROUP
BY KEY, VALUE
) B ON A.KEY = B.KEY AND A.VALUE = B.VALUE;

Answer 1

I think that you are trying too hard. Should be more like this:
SELECT MIN(START_DATE) AS FromDate, MAX(END_DATE) AS ToDate, KEY, VALUE
FROM KEY_VALUE
GROUP BY KEY, VALUE

Answer 2

This query appears to produce the correct results, though it pointed out that you missed a line in your example output '27-May-2011 ... 27-May-2011 ... 2 ... 20'.
select id, [value], date as fromdate, (
select top 1 date
from key_value kv2
where id = kv.id
and [value] = kv.[value]
and date >= kv.date
and datediff(d, kv.date, date) = (
select count(*)
from key_value
where id = kv.id
and [value] = kv.[value]
and date > kv.date
and date <= kv2.date
)
order by date desc
) as todate
from key_value kv
where not exists (
select *
from key_value
where id = kv.id
and [value] = kv.[value]
and date = dateadd(d, -1, kv.[date])
)
First it finds the min date records with the where clause, looking for records that do not have another record on the day before. Then the todate subquery gets the greatest date record by finding the number of days between it and min date then finding the number of records between the two and making sure they match. This of course assumes that the records in the table are distinct.
However if you are processing a massive table your best option may be to sort the records by key, id, date and then use a cursor to programmatically find the min and max dates as you loop over and look for values to change, then push them into a new table whether real or temp along with any other calculations you might need to do on other fields along the way.