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Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:42 PM
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Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:46 PM
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Very tricky! I made a guess. Yes. Anything is possible.
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you could use a case statement:

where
case month(dob)
when 1 then 1
when 3 then 1
when 4 then 1
when 5 then 1
when 7 then 1
when 8 then 1
else 0 end = 1

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Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 1:33 AM
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Handy to know...I'm sure I'll be using that in my code very soon!
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That was a very nice question for a Friday morning.

Another solution would be:
datepart(m,dob) between 1 and 8
and datepart(m,dob) <> 2
and datepart(m,dob) <> 6

Though the single condition definitely beats this solution.
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Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 2:12 AM
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Knut Boehnert (5/2/2008)
That was a very nice question for a Friday morning.

I'd have to disagree. I think these ones about working out pointless conditions to satisfy one off special cases that nobody will EVER use, are more about your ability (and level of interest) in working out what's different about those months than the others. As such, they have almost nothing to to with T-SQL (which was the 'Question Type') other than that they chose to write the solution in it. I imagine many people will simply guess yes (there's usually a way to do anything that starts with 'is there a way...') without really knowing why. I decided to be contrary and guessed no, based on the last (equally pointless) one of these being 'yes'.

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Kevin Gill (5/2/2008)
Knut Boehnert (5/2/2008)
That was a very nice question for a Friday morning.

I'd have to disagree. I think these ones about working out pointless conditions to satisfy one off special cases that nobody will EVER use, are more about your ability (and level of interest) in working out what's different about those months than the others. As such, they have almost nothing to to with T-SQL (which was the 'Question Type') other than that they chose to write the solution in it. I imagine many people will simply guess yes (there's usually a way to do anything that starts with 'is there a way...') without really knowing why. I decided to be contrary and guessed no, based on the last (equally pointless) one of these being 'yes'.

-- Kev



Kevin all solutions may not be the best but sometimes these type of solutions/questions shake our brains. We sometimes do monotonous work, so this solutions help us to break the shackle. We learnt something differently is also interesting.


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Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:54 AM


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You can use UNION...

good one...;)

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Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 5:07 AM


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Since the question clearly states:

The condition should not use both IN and OR operators.


use could use:
where DatePart(m, ) IN (1,3,4,5,7,8)

OR is not used, so since they BOTH aren't used, this is valid.

you also could use:
where DatePart(m, date) = 1
or DatePart(m, date) = 3 ....
as long as you don't use IN, this also would satisify the requirement not to use both.

The question should have stated
The condition should not use either the IN and OR operators.

Yes, I know what was meant. But the requirements didn't adequately specify the intention.

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Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 5:46 AM


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WayneS (5/2/2008)
Since the question clearly states:

The condition should not use both IN and OR operators.

use could use:
where DatePart(m, ) IN (1,3,4,5,7,8)

OR is not used, so since they BOTH aren't used, this is valid.

Exactly the answer I was about to give. :) I figured the question had to have been misworded, it's a complete no-brainer as is.

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