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Langston Montgomery

Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:24 PM

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Post #975361

CELKO

Posted Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:27 PM

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Instead of handling temporal data as strings (like we did in 1950's COBOL), instead of constructing a table of constant values over and over with procedural code , why not write SQL as if it were a declarative language that is good at table look-ups? Since one-statement UDFs can be done in line, why use all that procedural code to prevent any optimizations?

CREATE FUNCTION UTC_DST_Displacement (@in_my_datetime DATETIME)
RETURNS INTEGER
AS
BEGIN
RETURN
(SELECT (CASE WHEN @in_my_datetime BETWEEN dst_start_time AND dst_end_time THEN +1 ELSE 0 END) AS answer
FROM (VALUES
(CAST ('1990-04-01 02:00:00' AS DATETIME), CAST ('1990-10-28 02:00:00' AS DATETIME)),
('1991-04-07 02:00:00', '1991-10-27 02:00:00'),
('1992-04-05 02:00:00', '1992-10-25 02:00:00'), ('1993-04-04 02:00:00', '1993-10-31 02:00:00'),
('1994-04-03 02:00:00', '1994-10-30 02:00:00'), ('1995-04-02 02:00:00', '1995-10-29 02:00:00'),
('1996-04-07 02:00:00', '1996-10-27 02:00:00'), ('1997-04-06 02:00:00', '1997-10-26 02:00:00'),
('1998-04-05 02:00:00', '1998-10-25 02:00:00'), ('1999-04-04 02:00:00', '1999-10-31 02:00:00'),
('2000-04-02 02:00:00', '2000-10-29 02:00:00'), ('2001-04-01 02:00:00', '2001-10-28 02:00:00'),
('2002-04-07 02:00:00', '2002-10-27 02:00:00'), ('2003-04-06 02:00:00', '2003-10-26 02:00:00'),
('2004-04-04 02:00:00', '2004-10-31 02:00:00'), ('2005-04-03 02:00:00', '2005-10-30 02:00:00'),
('2006-04-02 02:00:00', '2006-11-29 02:00:00'), ('2007-03-11 02:00:00', '2007-11-04 02:00:00'),
('2008-03-09 02:00:00', '2008-11-02 02:00:00'), ('2009-03-08 02:00:00', '2009-11-01 02:00:00'),
('2010-03-14 02:00:00', '2010-11-07 02:00:00'), ('2011-03-13 02:00:00', '2011-11-06 02:00:00'),
('2012-03-11 02:00:00', '2012-11-04 02:00:00'), ('2013-03-10 02:00:00', '2013-11-03 02:00:00'),
('2014-03-09 02:00:00', '2014-11-02 02:00:00'), ('2015-03-08 02:00:00', '2015-11-01 02:00:00')
) AS DST_Periods (dst_start_time, dst_end_time)
);
END;

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Post #975907

Langston Montgomery

Posted Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:40 PM

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Thank you for your response.

The optimization in this case is negligible, but I do see your point. The downside to your script is that the dates are hard-coded, and one has to remember to enter in the new dates as time goes on.

The main purpose of this script is for those that do not have lookup tables, and need a quick solution to converting dates while adjusting for daylight savings time.

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