Comments on: Dynamic Dates Part III: Monthly Date Ranges

By: Khan

Khan — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:08:48 +0000

can someone publish the Dynamic Dates With db2 Functions. Thanks

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:56:03 +0000

Hi, Aruna, I see that you have posted the same question on BOB. I have added a reply to that post.

By: Aruna

Aruna — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:56:33 +0000

Dave, I need to create report and automate it (every monday morning) and select the last business day available. I have Posting_date object in the report. How to select last business day with this..
Let me know

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:21:46 +0000

Hi Anjali, your question doesn’t really fit this post. And to be honest, it seems to me you have already answered it yourself. If you’re using an Oracle database you can simply create a predefined condition that prompts the user for a date and does the math as required, something like:

table.some_date between @prompt('Enter Date','D',,,) and @prompt('Enter Date','D',,,)+91

For other databases the structure might be different. For example SQL Server offers the dateadd() function.

By: Anjali

Anjali — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:58:43 +0000

Hi,
I need to add 91 days to the date entered by the user.How can i do it?
I need : Expected Begin Date BETWEEN “Date entered by the User” AND (”Date entered by the User” +91) “.

By: kay

kay — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:15:51 +0000

Good Stuff Mr. Rathbun…saved me a lot of trouble.

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:35:33 +0000

Bill, I don’t think your code got posted properly. You might need to read the “tips for formatting comments” notes to get your complete code posted.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:42:27 +0000

HI dave, got this... I am using lastday(to_Date(to_char(’01?||’-'||||’-'||))) this resolved the issue. Thanks, Bill

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:14:41 +0000

Hi Dave, Thank you for your reply. This works for me. But my scenario is: I am using like this: Code: datecol between add_months(to_date(to_char('01'||'-'||''||'-'||'')),-3)and to_Date(to_char('01'||'-'||''||'-'||'')) If user selects current month then display as of current date if user selects previous month then display as of last day of that month. Is that be incorporated? Thanks, Bill

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:09:39 +0000

Hi, Bill, what you will need to do is convert your year+month into a date. For example, if you have 2009-09 as the year month, you can convert it to a date using the following: to_date('2009-09' || '-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD') This concatenates the day number '-01' to the end of the year+month string, then converts that value to a date using the to_date() function with an appropriate format string. If your year+month is in a different format you may use slightly different syntax but the concept is the same.