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Jinx
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Hi,

I have a situation where I need to calculate the VAT rate for a particular account, when the account was first set to live, not at the current VA rate. So I have the start and end dates for VAT rates and I have the date the account went into action. I basically need to return the vatrate for when ACCSDAT between VATSTARTDATE AND VATENDDATE. I'm really not sure how to go about doing this. Decode was something I tried, but from what I know of DECODE (and how to use it) it will only return a matching value not a BETWEEN, same with something like DB_LOOKUP. Are there any super-duper-clever ways of doing something like this?

FILENAME=  VAT
 VSDATE      START_DATE    DMYY
 VEDATE      END_DATE      DMYY
 VATRATE     RATE          P6.3B
  


FILENAME=  ACCOUNT
 ACCID      ID    I9
 ACCSDATE   START_DATE    DMYY
 ACCMOUNT   AMOUNT        P6.3B


Thanks!

Jinx.

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Do you have VAT_Amount in your Account table?

If so then reverse engineer the VAT, if not then perhaps McGyver technique (loose join) and then use DEFINE?

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No unfortunately no VAT RATE in the account table. I've tried for 3 years to avoid the McGyver...seems like it's time to try and figure it out.
Thanks.

Jinx.


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Use a condition-based join.
 
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Yep that's exactly what I've done.


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