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Inserting Birthday in Database?

I am creating a very simple table which will consist of Users Birtday (month and day only)
i created a Table
create 2 col.
Username type varchar
Bday type Datetime

now on ASP side i need to be able to insert the birthday to DB.
so i created 3 dropdownlist
1-User 2-Month 3-Day
all of them are populated .

now here is my problem not sure how i can insert it into DB as a DateTime format ... my goal is i need to be able to insert it and then write a simple SQL to show me all upcoming Birthdays for the next month.

Thank you,

Aneesh

Hello Raul77,

if you dont want to put the year, use to differernt columns to store the Month and day, you can query the upcoming birth days by using

SELECT *
FROM urTable
WHERE MONTH (Getdate() ) = dobMonth

Regards,

Aneesh

Raul77

ASKER

Hello Aneesh
thanks for the help ,
so i need to create 2 col. in DB , should they be type datetime?

btw i am using MSSQL 2000.

and in case you are wondering this is how i populate my dropdownlist

 DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi = new DateTimeFormatInfo();
        for (int month = 1; month < 13; month++)
        {
            ListItem li = new ListItem();
            li.Text = dtfi.GetMonthName(month);
            li.Value = month.ToString();
            ddlMonth.Items.Add(li);
        }
        for (int i = 1; i < 32; i++)
        {
            ListItem day = new ListItem();
            day.Text = i.ToString();
            day.Value = i.ToString();
            ddlDay.Items.Add(day);
        }

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Raul77

ASKER

anyone else has any idea on this?

thanks, i can re-design the table if need be.

Aneesh

You can use a TinyInt for these , tiny int can store upto 255

Raul77

ASKER

Aneesh:
i have a few problem
1-) i would need 2 months in advanced to show ( previosuly stated 1)
2-) what if todays date is 11/23 2 months in advance with be 11/23 ... how can it know that?
also wouldnt the DAY start playing a role?

if its 11/23 , i dont want to see someones birthday if its on 1/28 ! or if it has passed.

Thanks for the help.

Aneesh

DECLARE @Day tinyint,
@Month tinyint
-- for current month
SELECT NAme, dob_Day, dob_Month
FROM urDOBTable
WHERE dob_day > @day and dob_month = @month
UNION ALL
SELECT NAme, dob_Day, dob_Month --- nextMonth
FROM urDOBTable
WHERE dob_month = CASE WHEN @month =12 THEN 1 ELSE @month END

Raul77

ASKER

thanks Aneesh,
we are almost there, since i need the next 2 months i modified your script abit however now i am getting 2 table, we need to union ALL selects in 1 table

Thanks,

SELECT username, Bday, Bmonth
FROM users
WHERE Bday > 14 and Bmonth = 5
UNION ALL
SELECT username, Bday, Bmonth --- nextMonth
FROM users
WHERE Bmonth = CASE WHEN 5 =12 THEN 1 ELSE 6 END

SELECT username, Bday, Bmonth
FROM users
WHERE Bday < 14 and Bmonth = 7


SELECT username, Bday, Bmonth
FROM users
WHERE Bday > 14 and Bmonth = 5
UNION ALL
SELECT username, Bday, Bmonth --- nextMonth
FROM users
WHERE Bmonth = CASE WHEN 5 =12 THEN 1 ELSE 6 END
 
SELECT username, Bday, Bmonth
FROM users
WHERE Bday < 14 and Bmonth = 7

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Raul77

ASKER

i added union and it seem to be working :) thank you Sir.

Raul77

ASKER

Thank you,