Let's see. If the "coordinates" of the time intervals are in seconds, 20e6 covers about 8 months, which doesn't really tally with your "those datasets have piled up over the years".

But if they were in minutes, then it represents 39 years. Why would anyone care what user ran what job 38 years ago? They've an above average chance of being dead already.

And then there is the "rules are that even if only part of the job_id_interval crosses the uname interval, this should be reported." bit. How can a userid be responsible for a particular job if they didn't log on until the last (second|minute|lesser known time unit) of the jobs life?

And then there's that coincidence between there being 20e6 logons, 20e6 jobs; & 20e6 intervals during which those logos and job runs occurred?

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In reply to Re^3: mapping coordinates- suggestion needed by BrowserUk
in thread mapping coordinates- suggestion needed by baxy77bax

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