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MySQL Function with WHILE loop not working

I am trying to create a function that will accept two dates and some other criteria. Then I need to increment the date "dfrom" then test if a condition is true if so then it should return the date that the condition becomes true.

If the condition is not true then the date which is returned is the default.

Here is the function:
CREATE function stop_hit_date_d ( dfrom date, dto date, dsym varchar(10), dval DECIMAL(10,4) ) returns DATE
READS SQL DATA
begin
declare d DATE;
declare x INT;
declare f INT;
declare n INT;
set d = '1111-11-11';
set x = 1;
set f = 0;
set n = DATEDIFF(dto,dfrom);
while f = 0 OR n > 0 DO
select 1 into f
from prices
where fk_tdate = ADDDATE(dfrom, INTERVAL x DAY)
and fk_curr = 'USD'
and fk_tfid = 1
and fk_sym = dsym
and low < dval
limit 1;
set x = x + 1;
set d = fk_tdate;
set n = n - 1;
end while;
return d;
end

When I run this query (I get the following error):
mysql> SELECT stop_hit_date_d ( '2011-08-23', '2011-09-09', 'AEP', 36.76);
ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column 'fk_tdate' in 'field list'

In the above query I want to increment '2011-08-23' by 1 day, then see if the low price in the 'prices' table for symbol 'AEP' is below 36.76 if so then the function returns that incremented data, but if not the while loop adds another day to the dfrom date and re-test, if the dto date is hit and the condition is never true then the date which is returned is '1111-11-11'

Any help is apprecaited.

Kevin Cross

Hi.

It appears -- without looking deeper at the code -- your error is in the assignment of variable d.

CREATE function stop_hit_date_d ( dfrom date, dto date, dsym varchar(10), dval DECIMAL(10,4) ) returns DATE
READS SQL DATA
begin
declare d DATE;
declare x INT;
declare f INT;
declare n INT;
set d = '1111-11-11';
set x = 1;
set f = 0;
set n = DATEDIFF(dto,dfrom);
while f = 0 OR n > 0 DO
    select 1, fk_tdate into f, d 
    from prices 
    where fk_tdate = ADDDATE(dfrom, INTERVAL x DAY)
        and fk_curr = 'USD'
        and fk_tfid = 1
        and fk_sym = dsym
        and low < dval
    limit 1;
    set x = x + 1;
    set n = n - 1;
end while;
return d;
end

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If you are only interested in fk_tdate, would it not also work to simply do this:

select min(fk_tdate) into d 
    from prices 
    where fk_tdate between dfrom and dto
        and fk_curr = 'USD'
        and fk_tfid = 1
        and fk_sym = dsym
        and low < dval;

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Kevin Cross

You are very welcome!

1) Yes, it assigns whatever values -- literal or from column -- to variables on the right based on the order, i.e., variables need to be listed in same order as column values.

2) That is the theory. It is a set based approached versus row-by-row analysis. The first is acting like a cursor.

3) I do not believe so. You can emulate it, by concatenating the values then doing a SELECT after the loop is done. No PRINT like T-SQL, though. At least none when I last checked.

Kevin

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Thank you

John_2357

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I did not close or accept the solution until right now 18:15PST - I want to award the 500 points to "mwvisa1:" his solution was correct. I also do not want to make my question and its solution available to the public.

Thank you for fixing this.

John

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