Question

Create date ranges in SQL queries??

Asked by: LeadCo

SQL experts:
I have a script that allows users to select a date range of :
Today
Yesterday
This Week
This month
Last Month
Last Year

I need to know how to write the query to create a start and end date for each selection above.
Is it possible to do in a query or would you need to do it in say Coldfusion first then use a variable??

I can accept a coldfusion answer or straight sql.

God Bless ALL..

<cfquery datasource = "#mydsn#" name = "myQ">
Select * from mytable
where date between ........  and .......
</cfquery>

                                  
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2009-07-03 at 23:57:19ID24543558
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Answers

 

by: rizwanidreesPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:21:49ID: 24776160

Option - A, Create a store procedure as follow

CREATE PROCEDURE ProcedureName
      @p1 int
AS
BEGIN
      SET NOCOUNT ON;
      if @p1 = 0
            -- Today
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE DATE=GETDATE()
      ELSE if @p1 = 1
            -- Yesterday
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE DATE=GETDATE()-1
      ELSE IF @p1 = 2
            -- This Week
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE DATE BETWEEN GETDATE()-(DATEPART(dw, GETDATE())-1) AND  GETDATE()+(7-DATEPART(dw, GETDATE()))
      ELSE IF @p1 = 3
            -- Last Month
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MONTH(DATE)=MONTH(DATEADD(m, -1, GETDATE()))
      ELSE IF @p1 = 4
            -- Last Year
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Year(DATE)=Year(DATEADD(y, -1, GETDATE()))
      
END

Option - B, Don't create store procedure, use coldfusion to decide which query to run

 

by: LeadCoPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:31:24ID: 24776182

Great! The stored procedure should be fine.

I don't see  :
Thismonth in SP, can you show me how to do thismonth and LastWeek as well (IF POSSIBLE)?

 

by: RiteshShahPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:41:55ID: 24776200

have a look.


CREATE PROCEDURE ProcedureName 
      @p1 int
AS
BEGIN
      SET NOCOUNT ON;
      if @p1 = 0 
            -- Today
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE DATE=GETDATE()
      ELSE if @p1 = 1 
            -- Yesterday
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE DATE=GETDATE()-1
      ELSE IF @p1 = 2
            -- This Week
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE DATE BETWEEN GETDATE()-(DATEPART(dw, GETDATE())-1) AND  GETDATE()+(7-DATEPART(dw, GETDATE()))
      ELSE IF @p1 = 3
            -- Last Month
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MONTH(DATE)=MONTH(DATEADD(m, -1, GETDATE()))
      ELSE IF @p1 = 4
            -- Last Year
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Year(DATE)=Year(DATEADD(y, -1, GETDATE()))
      ELSE IF @p1 = 5
            -- This Month
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MONTH(DATE)=MONTH(GETDATE())
      ELSE IF @p1 = 6
            -- This last week
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Date between GETDATE()-7 and GETDATE()
      
END

                                              
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by: Geert_GruwezPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:42:51ID: 24776201

you could do just the same with a function
0: today
1: yesterday
2: begin of this week
3: end of this week
4: ...


create function selectdate(@p1 int) returns date
as
begin
  declare @x DATE
   
  select @x = case :p1
    when 0 then getdate()
    when 1 then getdate() -1
    when 2 then getdate()-datepart(dw,getdate())-1
    when 3 then getdate()-datepart(dw,getdate())+7
    -- etc
    end

  return (@x)
end

then you can use this in a query

select * from table where date between selectdate(2) and selectdate(3)

 

by: RiteshShahPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:43:02ID: 24776202

or may be like this:


CREATE PROCEDURE ProcedureName 
      @p1 int
AS
BEGIN
      SET NOCOUNT ON;
      if @p1 = 0 
            -- Today
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE DATE=GETDATE()
      ELSE if @p1 = 1 
            -- Yesterday
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE DATE=GETDATE()-1
      ELSE IF @p1 = 2
            -- This Week
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE DATE BETWEEN GETDATE()-(DATEPART(dw, GETDATE())-1) AND  GETDATE()+(7-DATEPART(dw, GETDATE()))
      ELSE IF @p1 = 3
            -- Last Month
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MONTH(DATE)=MONTH(DATEADD(m, -1, GETDATE()))
      ELSE IF @p1 = 4
            -- Last Year
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Year(DATE)=Year(DATEADD(y, -1, GETDATE()))
      ELSE IF @p1 = 5
            -- This Month
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MONTH(DATE)=MONTH(GETDATE())
      ELSE IF @p1 = 6
            -- This last week
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Date between GETDATE()-14 and GETDATE()-7
      
END

                                              
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by: Geert_GruwezPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:44:28ID: 24776204

advantage with function is, you can use it with any query or table

 

by: RiteshShahPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:47:37ID: 24776209

moreover, you have to consider year in month checking otherwise if you will check for last month which is JUNE, it will return records for JUNE 2008/9/7 etc.


CREATE PROCEDURE ProcedureName 
      @p1 int
AS
BEGIN
      SET NOCOUNT ON;
      if @p1 = 0 
            -- Today
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE DATE=GETDATE()
      ELSE if @p1 = 1 
            -- Yesterday
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE DATE=GETDATE()-1
      ELSE IF @p1 = 2
            -- This Week
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE DATE BETWEEN GETDATE() and GETDATE()-7
      ELSE IF @p1 = 3
            -- Last Month
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MONTH(DATE)=MONTH(DATEADD(m, -1, GETDATE())) and YEAR(date)=year(GETDATE())
      ELSE IF @p1 = 4
            -- Last Year
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Year(DATE)=Year(DATEADD(y, -1, GETDATE()))
      ELSE IF @p1 = 5
            -- This Month
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MONTH(DATE)=MONTH(GETDATE())  and YEAR(date)=year(GETDATE()) 
      ELSE IF @p1 = 6
            -- This last week
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Date between GETDATE()-14 and GETDATE()-7
      
END

                                              
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by: rizwanidreesPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:49:00ID: 24776213

           -- Last Week
       
 SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE DATE BETWEEN (GETDATE()-(DATEPART(dw, GETDATE())-1)) -7 AND  DATE BETWEEN (GETDATE()-(DATEPART(dw, GETDATE())-1)) -1

-- this Month
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MONTH(DATE)=MONTH(GETDATE())
-- This Year
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Year(DATE)=Year(GETDATE())

 

by: RiteshShahPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:49:20ID: 24776215

>>advantage with function is, you can use it with any query or table<<

if this is for specific purpose, I recommend to go for SP only, function can be used with any query but what about performance?

 

by: RiteshShahPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:50:04ID: 24776216

@Rizwanidrees,

>>-- this Month
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MONTH(DATE)=MONTH(GETDATE())
-- This Year
         SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Year(DATE)=Year(GETDATE())<<

what about year while checking for month???

 

by: rizwanidreesPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:52:13ID: 24776220

You must have to add
and YEAR(date)=year(GETDATE())

for this month and last month, i forgot to type

 

by: LeadCoPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:52:14ID: 24776221

Thanks all?

RiteshShaw: With this script would the "last week" and "this week" consider the start of the week?
Like if today is wednesday and they select last week they will  need to be returned Monday to Sunday or even Sunday to Saturday of last week would work.

Does the Last week and this week takwe that in consideration?

 

by: rizwanidreesPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:54:45ID: 24776228

You are right RiteshShah, i forgot that

 

by: RiteshShahPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:56:00ID: 24776229

no, in my approach it simply deduct 7 days from current day. for the approach you want, go for DatePart function like this:

DATE BETWEEN GETDATE()-(DATEPART(dw, GETDATE())-1) AND  GETDATE()+(7-DATEPART(dw, GETDATE()))

as Rizwanidrees has already explained.

 

by: rizwanidreesPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:58:04ID: 24776237

LeadCo: as per my understanding RetishShah script will give you result of last 7 days not for week. if you want recorder for monday to friday than try my query. What you suggest RetishShah?

 

by: RiteshShahPosted on 2009-07-04 at 00:59:05ID: 24776239

>>What you suggest RetishShah?<<

I have already addressed that, you were right in that area, as I misunderstood the question bit so deducted simply 7 days.

 

by: LeadCoPosted on 2009-07-04 at 01:03:14ID: 24776252

Ok I am using rizwanidrees last week query ; So how about "this week" query, with that approach, affraid i am novice in SQL...

 

by: LeadCoPosted on 2009-07-04 at 01:03:46ID: 24776254

This week starting on mon or sun

 

by: LeadCoPosted on 2009-07-04 at 01:09:44ID: 24776274

rizwanidrees:
DATE BETWEEN GETDATE()-(DATEPART(dw, GETDATE())-1) AND  GETDATE()+(7-DATEPART(dw, GETDATE()))

This returns The current week starting on 06/29 Monday of this week. (Great for "This Week")

How would you go back one more week? to make it Last weeks numbers?

 

by: RiteshShahPosted on 2009-07-04 at 01:12:12ID: 24776283

if you will run below query, you will know starting of last week and ending of the same.

select GETDATE()-(DATEPART(dw, GETDATE())-1),  GETDATE()+(7-DATEPART(dw, GETDATE()))

 

by: rizwanidreesPosted on 2009-07-04 at 01:12:17ID: 24776284

DATE BETWEEN GETDATE()-(DATEPART(dw, GETDATE())-1)-7 AND  GETDATE()+(7-DATEPART(dw, GETDATE()))-14

 

by: LeadCoPosted on 2009-07-04 at 02:32:01ID: 24776428

Ok Here is what Got me "Last Week":

 DATE BETWEEN GETDATE()-(DATEPART(dw, GETDATE())-1)-7 AND  GETDATE()+(7-DATEPART(dw, GETDATE()))-7

 

by: LeadCoPosted on 2009-07-04 at 02:34:03ID: 31599728

Thanks!

 

by: RiteshShahPosted on 2009-07-04 at 03:19:01ID: 24776500

glad to help!!!

Ritesh Shah

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