date within prior year range

  • I am having a little trouble with a statement to retrieve a count of records that fall within a certain period.

    I am trying to get the amount of records under 2 years, within 2 - 3 years, 4 - 5 years, 6 - 7 years, and 8 to 10 years, and over 10 years

    For example, I am looking at records that would fall within  6 - 7 years prior to today's date. This looks at the year 2000 records.

    I have the case statement:

     Case When max(ub.Paint) between dateadd(yy,-7,getdate()) and dateadd(yy,-6,getdate()) Then 1 Else 0 End

    I get some records for 2000 but not all.

    How would I go about this?

    Thanks in advance

     

     

     

  • The way I did something like this was this way:

    SELECT COUNT(CASE WHEN YEAR(myDate) = 2000 THEN 1 ELSE NULL END) AS Count2000

  • Thanks for the reply, but 2000 was just my example because today's date is 9/18/2007.  I don't want to hard code the years, I just want the statement to calculate the correct date for me. That way I won't have to change the report all the time.

     

     

  • select

    Sum(case when datediff(yy, ub.Paint, getdate()) >= 2 then 1 else 0 end) as Last2,

    Sum(case when datediff(yy, ub.Paint, getdate()) between 3 and 4 then 1 else 0 end) as [3-4],

    From

    mytable

     

    But be careful of this solution. because datediff will show 1 year as long as the records were created in different years.

    For example

    This returns 1 even though it is only 1 day apart

    select datediff(yy,'12/31/2007', '01/01/2008')

    Result

    1

     

  • SELECT      DATEADD(YEAR, DATEDIFF(YEAR, '19000101', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), '19000101') AS theDate UNION ALL

    SELECT      DATEADD(YEAR, DATEDIFF(YEAR, '19010101', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), '19000101') UNION ALL

    SELECT      DATEADD(YEAR, DATEDIFF(YEAR, '19020101', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), '19000101') UNION ALL

    SELECT      DATEADD(YEAR, DATEDIFF(YEAR, '19030101', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), '19000101') UNION ALL

    SELECT      DATEADD(YEAR, DATEDIFF(YEAR, '19040101', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), '19000101') UNION ALL

    SELECT      DATEADD(YEAR, DATEDIFF(YEAR, '19050101', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), '19000101') UNION ALL

    SELECT      DATEADD(YEAR, DATEDIFF(YEAR, '19060101', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), '19000101') UNION ALL

    SELECT      DATEADD(YEAR, DATEDIFF(YEAR, '19070101', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), '19000101')

     

    SELECT      *

    FROM        Table1

    WHERE       Col1 >= DATEADD(YEAR, DATEDIFF(YEAR, '19030101', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), '19000101')

                AND Col1 < DATEADD(YEAR, DATEDIFF(YEAR, '19020101', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), '19000101')

     

    Also read this article

    http://www.sqlteam.com/article/datediff-function-demystified

     


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  • RayM, Thanks for very much this worked fine.

  • If you are concerned about speed, Ray's solution will not make use of any present index. Making a calculation with the indexed column renders the index useless.

     


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  • Peter,

    I have just ran my query. Speed is not an issue.

    I am not sure what you are doing with your statement. Ray's was easier for me to understand.

    Thanks for your advice.

     

  • Why not just group the records according to the year of the date?  The query would look somthing like this:

    SELECT Year(dateField), Count(*) FROM tableName

    GROUP BY Year(dateField)

     

    This will return a count of records for each year represented in the data along with the year itself.

    Robert DeFazio

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