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Datediff HALF YEAR?? and dateadd

Guys it doesnt work right

declare @StartTime datetime
set @StartTime = '10/01/2008'

SELECT
CASE t2.HowToCharge
      WHEN 1 THEN CONVERT(char,DateAdd(m,DATEDIFF(m,t2.StartDate,@StartTime),t2.StartDate),101)
      WHEN 3 THEN CONVERT(char,DateAdd(q,DATEDIFF(q,t2.StartDate,@StartTime),t2.StartDate),101)
      WHEN 6 THEN CONVERT(char,DateAdd(q,2*DATEDIFF(q,t2.StartDate,@StartTime),t2.StartDate),101)
      WHEN 12 THEN CONVERT(char,DateAdd(year,DATEDIFF(year,t2.StartDate,@StartTime),t2.StartDate),101)
      END
NextInvoiceDate,

Am i missing something here. The half year doesnt work.

If i set @StartTime = 10/01/2008 And the date in the StartDate is 10/01/2008. NextInvoiceDate, will be 10/01/2008 as it should. But as this should be every half year, the next date should be 04/01/2009 RIGHT? but it isnt, if you change StartTime to 04/01/2009 NextInvoiceDate will be 10/01/2009. But if you change StartTime to 03/01/2009 NextInvoiceDate will be 04/01/2009. What am i doing wrong?

And another thing, how can i handle people going back in time. I mean if the StartTime is smaller than StartDate

tim_carter

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Well i can se what im doing wrong.. You cant do it this way because 2*Datediff. will turn into years eventually. How can i get a datediff halfyear? anyone?

Daniel Wilson

There's something missing from the problem definition here ...

You're not just trying to find half a year from the StartTime or half a year from the StartDate ... you're trying to find ... what?

If the start point is clear then adding either 2 quarters or 6 months should get you what you want.

tim_carter

ASKER

Everymonth i will change the @startdate to the current date. (month). and the field NextInvoiceDate should tell me the date for each client when they should be invoiced. Now the Quarterly, and Yearly and ofcourse monthly works fine. But i cant seem to get the Helf Year working. Do you have an example of how to do that? Because the way i have done it in the example above, will never work.

Thanks

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tim_carter

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dont think it can be done, but thanks for the help guys