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Challenge #106: How Long were the Lights On?

Tom_Pilgrem
8 - Asteroid

Long winded solution compared to others - but it makes sense to me! 


@JoeM
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Was ok once I figured out the generate rows tool. Useful tool to know of - that's why I do the challenges! 

Generate rows to produce one row for each minute for each room and then group by room and count distinct individual minutes. 

There must be a better way to convert the time string into a date/time function. But I was confused by the one tool solutions people were doing. 




justin_winter
8 - Asteroid

Pretty straight-forward. Could have done it with 2 tools, but it would have been really ugly in the multi-row tool! Instead cleaned up dates first then calculated.

 

 

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kelly_gilbert
13 - Pulsar
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It looks like the two popular solutions used either generate rows or multi-row...  I chose the multi-row option.
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dominiklz
8 - Asteroid
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another one of those challenges where you really gotta sit back and think for a moment, had the idea with generate rows rightaway but then tried beating it to death with convoluted multi-row formulas, even though it could have been so easy...

mascarenhas_lucas
8 - Asteroid

I'm not happy with my solution, I think it might have a better way to solve this problem!

 

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daniel_ferreira
8 - Asteroid

Follow my solution file attached...

ponraj
13 - Pulsar
 
kennydso
5 - Atom

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petgrap
8 - Asteroid
 
ivoller
12 - Quasar

I was making it more difficult than necessary. Then I saw the light!