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Reply To: First Monday of the Month
Simon Hundleby wrote:Jeff, Yes I didn't explain the requirements as well as I could have.
Nah... you did fine. It was just a little different and the year's worth of month...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
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Reply To: First Monday of the Month
Simon Hundleby wrote:Thanks to everyone who helped with this. I'm just working through them to understand how each one works. Regards, Simon
Not trying to being a snot on this but most...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: First Monday of the Month
Thanks for the feedback, Simon.
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) -
Reply To: First Monday of the Month
Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:Finding this a bit amusing, "The criteria is that if the 1st of the Month is a Monday then use that Date otherwise use the last Monday of the...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: First Monday of the Month
ChrisM@Work wrote:How nice it is to see this again - a bunch of folks working the hell out of a problem to come up with their solutions, each one faster...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: First Monday of the Month
DesNorton wrote:ChrisM@Work wrote:How nice it is to see this again - a bunch of folks working the hell out of a problem to come up with their solutions, each one...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: Is there any way of storing database related information?
Talking with the current company lawyers might be the best thing to do. Of course you'd have to get it in writing but you never know... they might just say...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: First Monday of the Month
Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:This should do, short and simple 😉 😎
USE TEEST;
GO
SET NOCOUNT ON;
GO
DECLARE @MYDATE DATE = '20190101';
;WITH TDATES AS
(
SELECT DATEFROMPARTS(
DATEPART(YEAR,@MYDATE)
...--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: First Monday of the Month
Also, I missed the final post by Des Norton. Tested that in the same manner as I did previously and his code also also seems to work correctly.
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: Looking for Step by Step Instructions for SQL Server Loop using Powershell
Heh... that's what you get for posting PowerShell on an SQL Forum. 😀 😀 😀
The problem is very likely the use of both carriage return and line feed (newline) from...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
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Reply To: Is there any way of storing database related information?
Provided that they're not too long, you could use "Extended Properties" (in SQL Server, anyway) to keep track of things. Another method would be to actually store certain documentation in...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) -
Reply To: First Monday of the Month
Whew! Still checking but the same August 1954 output from the function I built lists things as the OP requested.
So does September 1954...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) -
Reply To: First Monday of the Month
Ah... crud. Sorry... I have to take back what I said about Chris' code. I noticed that he was using a DATEADD of 27 days in the final result and...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) -
Reply To: First Monday of the Month
Shifting gears, I expanded the test dates on Chris' good code and it seems to handle the "leading" edge cases in the places I looked. He also did it in...--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) -
Reply To: First Monday of the Month
p.s.
Here's what the output looks like. The highlighted row is the "leading" edge case that I spoke of in my previous post. As you can see below, the function I...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
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.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
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