Home Forums SQL Server 2005 SQL Server 2005 General Discussion Get date range of last quarter RE: Get date range of last quarter

  • June 2, 2016 at 6:55 pm

    #1882970

    Lynn Pettis (6/2/2016)

    The following should help:

    d e c la r e -- spaced to post from work

    @ThisDate date = getdate();

    select

    @ThisDate,

    dateadd(quarter,datediff(quarter,0,@ThisDate),0) CurrentQuarterStart,

    dateadd(quarter,datediff(quarter,0,@ThisDate) - 1,0) PreviousQuarterStart,

    dateadd(quarter,datediff(quarter,0,@ThisDate),-1) PreviousQuarterEnd;

    Personally, I would use >= PreviousQuarterStart and < CurrentQuarterStart for a filter in a WHERE clause.

    +1 for the simplicity and + 1,000,000 for the WHERE clause example to avoid accidental inclusion of whole dates for the next quarter.

    --Jeff Moden

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    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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