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Jinx
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Hi All,

After hours of struggling with this, I give up, Help! Smiler

I have the following situation..
SQL Server table accessed in Developer Studio. This is a simple version of the data I am trying to retrieve:

-SET &DATER = &YYMD;
-SET &DATER2 = DATEADD(&DATER, 'M', -1);

TABLE FILE MYTABLE
PRINT
PROJCODE
IF PROJDATE EQ '&DATER2'
END

..If I use the first &DATER in the GE statement, i get a result, but as soon as I try and do any sort of 'formatting' on the date (and believe me I have tried so many combinations!) I get the message:

(FOC177) INVALID DATE CONSTANT: ********
(FOC009) INCOMPLETE REQUEST STATEMENT
BYPASSING TO END OF COMMAND

I have also tried this within a define statement as well as compute.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

K.


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Francis Mariani
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What do you mean by "'formatting' on the date"?

Which date, the Dialogue Manager variable or the data column?

What kind of formatting are you talking about? The line of code is a WHERE statement. If the data column is a SQL DateTime column then you have to set up the WHERE statement differently.


Francis


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Jinx
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By date formatting I mean be able to use the DATEADD function to get the previous month/ or day or year for that matter.
if I use the following, my results are fine:
IF PROJDATE EQ '&DATER'
with this I get all the data from today, but say I want all the data from last month, as in &DATER2, the error occurs.
The field is a SQL server datetime field.

Thanks.

K.


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GinnyJakes
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Try AYMD instead. It works better for Dialogue Manager variables.
-SET &DATER = &YYMD;
-SET &DATER2 = DATEADD(&DATER, 'M', -1);
-SET &DATER3 = AYMD(&DATER,-1,'I8YYMD');
-TYPE &DATER &DATER2 &DATER3


Ginny
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Francis Mariani
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If the column is defined as HYYMDS in the Master, you will have to add Time to the Dialogue Manager variable, something like:

-SET &DTTM1 = EDIT(&DT1, '9999/99/99') | ' 00:00:00.000';

WHERE SCG_JSI_DOCMASTER.SCG_JSI_.SDATE GE '&DTTM1';


Francis


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FrankDutch
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It would help a lot if you post your master of the "mytable" dataset.




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Jinx
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The mention of the AYMD function lead me to another post that talks about date convert, I had no idea that this was in fact the issue and what was needed, seems that I need to use DATECVT for all my SQL Server dates, for the date funtions like DATEADD and DATEMOV to work in the first place. This is what I am trying at the moment and it is functioning well (though a little clunky...but does the job):
-SET &DATER = &YYMD;
-SET &DATER0 = DATECVT(&DATER,'I8YYMD','YYMD');
-SET &DATER1 = DATEMOV(&DATER0, 'BOM');
-SET &DATER2 = DATEADD(&DATER1, 'M', -1);
-SET &DATER4 = DATECVT(&DATER2, 'YYMD','I8YYMD');

Thanks for the help!


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Francis Mariani
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Some of your requirements you can do in one -SET command.

Take a look at this:

add date function?


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