Querying for Contiguous Series

A deceptively simple question:

How to select the first continous group of rows using Oracle SQL (Stackoverflow)

The solution given by Malgrat works nicely. He generates a “gap” column which detects changes in the data, then uses a running total to restrict the results to the first “group”. I haven’t come up with a more elegant solution that doesn’t involve multiple table scans.

TAPI vs. XAPI
Unit Test != Requirements

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