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Start and End Date For Previous Month

Hi Experts,

How do you get the first and last day of the previous month based on the getdate()?

today is 11/18/2008, so

the Start Date (first day of the previous month) = 10/01/2008
the End Date (last day of the previous month) = 10/31/2008

This is for MS-SQL 2005.

TIA!

Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

select dateadd(day, 1-datepart(day, getdate()), convert(datetime, convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 120), 120)) first_day_of_this_month
dateadd(month, -1, dateadd(day, 1-datepart(day, getdate()), convert(datetime, convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 120), 120))) first_day_of_prev_month

Allan

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thanks angelIII for your help.

The first sql gets the first day of the current month?

the second sql gets the first day of last month.

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Mark Wills

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Kevin Cross

SELECT
DATEADD(mm, - 1, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, GETDATE() - DAY(GETDATE()) + 1)) AS FirstDayOfLastMonth
, DATEADD(mm, 0, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, GETDATE() - DAY(GETDATE()))) AS LastDayOfLastMonth

This gets you both days at midnight. if you are using this to include values from last month, I would use like this:

dateField >= DATEADD(mm, - 1, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, GETDATE() - DAY(GETDATE()) + 1))
AND dateField < DATEADD(mm, 0, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, GETDATE() - DAY(GETDATE()) + 1))

Which goes from midnight of 10/1 inclusive to all dates less than 11/1.

If you just need the dates without the time, then you can use the convert Angel showed with this:

DATEADD(mm, - 1, GETDATE() - DAY(GETDATE()) + 1) -- first day
DATEADD(mm, 0, GETDATE() - DAY(GETDATE())) -- last day

Mark Wills

and if time is important (usually is in datetime),

select convert(datetime,convert(varchar(6),getdate() - day(getdate()),112)+'01 00:00:00') as start_of_prior_month, dateadd(dd,-1,convert(varchar(6),getdate(),112)+'01 23:59:59') as end_of_prior_month

Allan

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So many Experts so I'll try to be fair.

that's a good point mwvisa1 about the time stamp, I was gonna solve that with DATEADD(dd,1,@EndDt)

Allan

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thank you all for your posts!

Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

>The first sql gets the first day of the current month?
so that's fine, right?

>the second sql gets the first day of last month.
usually, you want to do a date query for

where your_date_col >= first_day_of_previous_month
and your_date_col < first_day_of_current_month

hence, my suggestion.

if you REALLY want to get the last day of the month date value:

select dateadd(day, 1-datepart(day, getdate()), convert(datetime, convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 120), 120)) first_day_of_this_month
, dateadd(month, -1, dateadd(day, 1-datepart(day, getdate()), convert(datetime, convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 120), 120))) first_day_of_prev_month
, dateadd(day, -datepart(day, getdate()), convert(datetime, convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 120), 120)) last_day_of_previous_month

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Allan

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ara ara ... sorry .. already awarded the points...

Thank you for your posts.