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valeryk2000 SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4245 More actions · Answer 1

Just bumped on this:

DECLARE @dob datetime

SET @dob='1992-01-09 00:00:00'

SELECT DATEDIFF(YEAR, '0:0', getdate()-@dob)

Works ok. Who can explain '0:0' ?

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286573 More actions · Answer 2

valeryk2000 (11/18/2013)
Just bumped on this:
DECLARE @dob datetime
SET @dob='1992-01-09 00:00:00'
SELECT DATEDIFF(YEAR, '0:0', getdate()-@dob)
Works ok. Who can explain '0:0' ?

Actually it doesn't really work ok. See the posts on the first page.

However, the '0:0' is simply a strange way of writing 1/1/1900 or the 0 date. Remember the second parameter is a datetime so it will perform an implicit conversion.

select cast('0:0' as datetime)

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valeryk2000 SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4245 More actions · Answer 3

Thanks. So simple zero can work as well. So far I checked the code several times - and it was ok. Where is a potential error? May be I missed something on page 1 ...

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 4

valeryk2000 (11/18/2013)
So far I checked the code several times - and it was ok. Where is a potential error?

Here's one of many places where it fails because of Leap Years...

DECLARE @dob datetime

,@now datetime

SELECT @dob = '2000-02-28 00:00:00'

,@now = '2001-02-27 00:00:00'

SELECT DATEDIFF(YEAR, '0:0', @now-@dob)

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valeryk2000 SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4245 More actions · Answer 5

Right ... it also does not work with infants (before they reach 1 year) ...

Thanks

Dwain Camps SSC Guru Points: 86908 More actions · Answer 6

Old thread but this is my reference article on the subject:

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Age is covered near the end.

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valeryk2000 SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4245 More actions · Answer 7

Very good article indeed. Learned a lot. I'm just taking on the "age" problem, it seems more complicated than I initially thought. I am working for a large health system including several hospitals, and age of patients may in years, months, weeks and even days (newborns). So I am going to write a universal function (or set of functions) that would return age in any of those units.

Thanks to everybody

Val

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 8

valeryk2000 (11/19/2013)
Very good article indeed. Learned a lot. I'm just taking on the "age" problem, it seems more complicated than I initially thought. I am working for a large health system including several hospitals, and age of patients may in years, months, weeks and even days (newborns). So I am going to write a universal function (or set of functions) that would return age in any of those units.
Thanks to everybody
Val

Cool. If you get the chance, post the function(s) when you're done. I'd love to see them. Thanks.