You could use SQL, as tye hinted. Suppose you load your data into a table named sesn (session) with fields sesn_id, usr_id, sesn_bgn, sesn_end and whatever else you may need, properly indexed etc. Then, a query like the following should do what you want (untested):
SELECT foo.usr_id AS user, foo.sesn_id AS session1, bar.sesn_id AS session2, foo.sesn_bgn AS start1, bar.sesn_bgn AS start2, foo.sesn_end AS end1, bar.sesn_end AS end2 FROM sesn foo, sesn bar WHERE foo.usr_id = bar.usr_id AND bar.sesn_bgn >= foo.sesn_bgn AND bar.sesn_bgn <= foo.sesn_end AND foo.sesn_id != bar.sesn_id -- AND (conditions on min duration etc here)

Here I have assumed that you are trying to track multiple simultaneous sessions by the same user. If that's not what you meant, adjust accordingly.

Hope this helps. Cheers.


In reply to Re: How to Iterate to Identify Concurrent Users (SQL) by fenLisesi
in thread How to Iterate to Identify Concurrent Users by Anonymous Monk

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