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TheNewbie

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June 15, 2022 at 9:56 am

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Hi,
I'm converting Oracle Queries into MS SQL and there are fucntions which are specific only to Oracle.
I'm struggling on a query which in the WHERE-Clause I have this (tab is DATETIME2)
```
select tab.a
tab2.b
tab3.c
from tab, tab2, tab3
Where TO_CHAR(tab.x, 'MMYYYY') = TO_CHAR(trunc(Sysdate,'MM')-1,'MMYYYY'))
```
I'm not pretty sure what does this is about but I think its trying to truncate the Month, right?(Can you explain it to me further?)
I tried this
```
FORMAT(tab.x, 'yyyy-MM') = CONVERT(DATETIME, CONVERT(VARCHAR(7), GETDATE(), 120) + '-01')
```
but didn't work.
Any help?
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Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246692 More actions · Answer 1

If you can explain the requirement in English, I'm sure that someone here will help with the T-SQL.

It would also be useful to know the datatype of tab.x.

If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.

frederico_fonseca SSCoach Points: 16010 More actions · Answer 2

TO_CHAR(trunc(Sysdate,'MM')-1,'MMYYYY')) - this is returning the first day of the current month (trunc(sysdate, 'MM) minus 1 day (-1) in format MMYYYY

TO_CHAR(tab.x, 'MMYYYY') is returning the value of tab.x on format MMYYYY

so basically the code is returning all rows where the year+month is equal to the previous month (and year if so happens)

assuming your tab.x data type is SQLserver is a date/datetime then you should change the code so that it uses proper date comparison (which will be sargeable) instead of the conversion of tab.x to a string to do the compare

tab.x >=  dateadd(mm, datediff(mm, 0, getdate()) - 1, 0) -- Beginning of previous month
and tab.x < dateadd(mm, datediff(mm, 0, getdate()), 0)     -- Beginning of this month

and please please ignore that FORMAT option - it is very very slow and should not be used except for ad-hoc small volumes purposes.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398679 More actions · Answer 3

You want to look at date functions like EOMONTH. Here are some samples that are pretty much what you're looking for.

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TheNewbie Old Hand Points: 361 More actions · Answer 4

frederico_fonseca wrote:

TO_CHAR(trunc(Sysdate,'MM')-1,'MMYYYY')) - this is returning the first day of the current month (trunc(sysdate, 'MM) minus 1 day (-1) in format MMYYYY
so basically the code is returning all rows where the year+month is equal to the previous month (and year if so happens)
--> Thank you for this explanation
TO_CHAR(tab.x, 'MMYYYY') is returning the value of tab.x on format MMYYYY (-> I already knew this one 🙂 )
assuming your tab.x data type is SQLserver is a date/datetime then you should change the code so that it uses proper date comparison (which will be sargeable) instead of the conversion of tab.x to a string to do the compare
tab.x >=  dateadd(mm, datediff(mm, 0, getdate()) - 1, 0) -- Beginning of previous month
and tab.x < dateadd(mm, datediff(mm, 0, getdate()), 0)     -- Beginning of this month
and please please ignore that FORMAT option - it is very very slow and should not be used except for ad-hoc small volumes purposes.
-> noted (what should I use then please?)

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TheNewbie Old Hand Points: 361 More actions · Answer 5

frederico_fonseca wrote:

TO_CHAR(trunc(Sysdate,'MM')-1,'MMYYYY')) - this is returning the first day of the current month (trunc(sysdate, 'MM) minus 1 day (-1) in format MMYYYY
so basically the code is returning all rows where the year+month is equal to the previous month (and year if so happens)
--> Thank you for this explanation

TO_CHAR(tab.x, 'MMYYYY') is returning the value of tab.x on format MMYYYY (-> I already knew this one 🙂 )
assuming your tab.x data type is SQLserver is a date/datetime then you should change the code so that it uses proper date comparison (which will be sargeable) instead of the conversion of tab.x to a string to do the compare
tab.x >=  dateadd(mm, datediff(mm, 0, getdate()) - 1, 0) -- Beginning of previous month
and tab.x < dateadd(mm, datediff(mm, 0, getdate()), 0)     -- Beginning of this month
and please please ignore that FORMAT option - it is very very slow and should not be used except for ad-hoc small volumes purposes.
-> noted

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TheNewbie Old Hand Points: 361 More actions · Answer 6

Grant Fritchey wrote:

You want to look at date functions like EOMONTH. Here are some samples that are pretty much what you're looking for.

Thanks for the link