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Moogle
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Hi Team,

I have a DATE-TIME field on a SQL/R3 db, and the masterfile has been set to USAGE=MDYY ACTUAL=DATE.

When the user enters a date range, it will show data only up to the day before the ToDate that they enter. I think this is because WF is sending 01/02/2007 00:00:00, which is functionally 01/01/2007. The only way I have found to make the date range work out is to do a DATEADD function on the variable provided and add one additional day.

Is there a more elegant way to handle this?

Cheers,

Joey


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Posts: 318 | Location: Los Angeles, CA | Registered: November 15, 2005Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Quite often I code my Date selection statements like this:

WHERE SCHEDULEDSTART FROM DT(&DADATE 00:00:00.000) TO DT(&DADATE 23:59:59.999);

(The .000 and .999 is for milliseconds)


Francis


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jgelona
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Francis,

Will your WHERE clause be passed to the database or will FOCUS do the WHERE?

The problem occurs when there is a time in the data base so if one is doing an equality test, 01-02-2007 is not equal to 01-02-2007 02:00:00.

We do a lot of date testing (Oracle database) is our reporting. We typically set 2 & variables, &BEGDT and &ENDDT. For example, say we want the data for all of Jan 2007, &BEGDT is 20070101 and &ENDDT is 20070201. We just code:

WHERE TESTDT GE '&BEGDT' AND TESTDT LT '&ENDDT'

This does get passed to the database.


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Tony A
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jgelona,

You do realise that you are testing for "less than", rather than "less than or equal to" in the where clause you posted?

quote:
WHERE TESTDT GE '&BEGDT' AND TESTDT LT '&ENDDT'


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Francis Mariani
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WHERE SCHEDULEDSTART FROM DT(&DADATE 00:00:00.000) TO DT(&DADATE 23:59:59.999);


Does get passed to SQL.

Turn on your SQL traces.

See this post on how to turn traces on:

https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/...681009331#5681009331


Francis


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