We're currently rebuilding basic emailed reports built using T-SQL to be paginated reports published on Power BI.
We're muddling through by creating the tables we need with the appropriate filters in Power BI Desktop to reconcile the numbers, then taking the DAX code from them using the Performance Analyser.
The one I'm working at the minute has a simple bit of SQL code to get data for a previous calendar month. I have no idea how or if it's possible for this to exist in DAX?
-- Validation to get previous month
IF (MONTH(GETDATE()) - 1) > 0
SET #MONTH = MONTH(GETDATE()) - 1
ELSE
SET #MONTH = '12'
-- Validation to get year of previous month
IF (#MONTH < 12)
SET #YEAR = YEAR(GETDATE())
ELSE
SET #YEAR = YEAR(GETDATE()) - 1
-- Set start date and finish date for extract
SET #PERIOD = #YEAR + RIGHT('00' + #MONTH, 2)
It needs to become a hidden SSRS parameter or just inline code to be used with this DAX variable:
VAR __DS0FilterTable =
TREATAS({"202212"}, 'Org View_VaultexCalendar'[Calendar Month No])
So the "202212" would become #period or the equivalent if doable without a parameter.
SSRS Parameter:
=IIF(
Month(Today()) > 1,
Year(Today()) & RIGHT("00" & Month(Today()) - 1, 2),
Year(Today())-1 & "12"
)
DAX expression:
IF (
MONTH ( TODAY () ) > 1,
YEAR ( TODAY () ) & FORMAT ( MONTH ( TODAY () ) - 1, "00" ),
YEAR ( TODAY () ) - 1 & "12"
)
In both cases we look at today's month and check if it's after January. If it is, take the current year and concatenate it with the current month less one and padded with a leading zero when needed. In the other case we know that the month is January so take the current year less one and concatenate it with "12"
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I need to find the price for an item for each financial year end date in a date range. In this case the financial year is e.g. 31 March
The table I have for example:
ItemID
Value
DateFrom
DateTo
1
10
'2019/01/01'
'2021/02/28'
1
11
'2021/03/01'
'2021/05/01'
SQL Fiddle
The SQL would thus result in the above table to be:
ItemID
Value
DateFrom
DateTo
1
10
'2019/01/01'
'2019/03/30'
1
10
'2020/03/31'
'2021/02/28'
1
11
'2020/03/01'
'2021/03/30'
1
11
'2020/03/31'
'2021/05/01'
You can solve it, but a prerequisite is the creation of a table called financial_years and filling it with data. This would be the structure of the table:
financial_years(id, DateFrom, DateTo)
Now that you have this table, you can do something like this:
select ItemID, Value, financial_years.DateFrom, financial_years.DateTo
from items
join financial_years
on (items.DateFrom between financial_years.DateFrom and financial_years.DateTo) or
(items.DateTo between financial_years.DateFrom and financial_years.DateTo)
order by financial_years.DateFrom;
The accepted answer is not correct, as it does not split out different parts of the year which have different values.
You also do not need a Year table, although it can be beneficial. You can generate it on the fly using a VALUES table.
Note also a better way to check the intervals overlap, using AND not OR
WITH Years AS (
SELECT
YearStart = DATEFROMPARTS(v.yr, 3, 31),
YearEnd = DATEFROMPARTS(v.yr + 1, 3, 31)
FROM (VALUES
(2015),(2016),(2017),(2018),(2019),(2020),(2021),(2022),(2023),(2024),(2025),(2026),(2027),(2028),(2029),(2030),(2031),(2032),(2033),(2034),(2035),(2036),(2037),(2038),(2039)
) v(yr)
)
SELECT
i.ItemID,
i.Value,
DateFrom = CASE WHEN i.DateFrom > y.YearStart THEN i.DateFrom ELSE y.YearStart END,
DateTo = CASE WHEN i.DateTo > y.YearEnd THEN y.YearEnd ELSE i.DateTo END
FROM items i
JOIN Years y ON i.DateFrom <= y.YearEnd
AND i.DateTo >= y.YearStart;
I'm quite a beginner on VB/SQL, I just began my learning few months ago, but I can understand the logic of algorithms as I used to do some Excel VBA .
I'm actually designing a database where I can (wish to) follow up every colleague's activity during the year.
The objective is to have a (Monthly) ratio of =>
Billable days / (Billable + Non Billable - Absent)
The context :
A single person can be : Working internally (Non billable), OR Working Externally (Billable) , OR on Holidays (Absent).
I have a [Planning] Table where it stores the following data : [Consultant_ID] (linked to another table [Consultant], [Activity] (A list with the three choices described above), [Beginning_Date], [End_Date].
Example :
Consultant 1 : Working externally from 01/01/2019 to 01/06/2019,
Working internally from 02/06/2019 to 31/12/2019,
Holidays from 02/03/2019 to 15/03/2019
Is there a way to have the Billable ratio of March for example ?
I created 4 queries (Maybe too much ?)
3 queries : [Consultant_ID] [Activity] [Beginning_Date] [End_Date] [Ratio : Datediff("d";[Beginning_Date];[End_Date]).
For each query : The [Activity criteria] : one Working Internally, one Working Externally, one Absent.
And for the [Beginning_Date] and [End_Date] criterias : <=[Enter beginning date], >=[Enter End date]
And the 4th query [Consultant ID] [Billable] [Non billable] [Absent] (and planning to add the [RATIO]).
Problem is : the Datediff counts the dates of the whole activity of what it finds, and not only the dates between 01/03/2019 and 31/03/2019 as I wish to.
I Expect the output of the ratio to be : Billable days / (Billable + Non Billable - Absent) of the desired period.
The actual output shows the billable, non billable, and absent days of the whole period between the dates which are inputted
So instead of 31 Billable, 0 Non billable, 15 Absent
It shows 180 Billable, 0 Non Billable, 32 Absent
Sorry for the long post, it is actually my first, and thank you very much !
I've been struggling with this for a whole week
We first need to figure out the maxBegin and the minEnd dates for each row
SELECT
*,
(IIF (Beginning_Date > #3/1/2019#, Beginning_Date, #3/1/2019#) ) as maxBegin,
(IIF (End_Date < #3/31/2019#, End_Date, #3/31/2019#) ) as minEnd,
Datediff("d", maxBegin, minEnd) + 1 as theDiff
FROM Planning
Where Beginning_Date <= #3/31/2019# AND End_Date >= #3/1/2019#
Then use that to compute the durations. Note: DateDiff does not count both ends, so we need to add +1.
SELECT
Consultant_ID,
SUM(IIF (Activity = "Working Internally", Datediff("d", maxBegin, minEnd) +1, 0) ) as NonBillable,
SUM(IIF (Activity = "Working Externally", Datediff("d", maxBegin, minEnd) +1, 0) ) as Billable,
SUM(IIF (Activity = "Holidays", Datediff("d", maxBegin, minEnd) +1, 0) ) as Absent
FROM
(
SELECT
*,
(IIF (Beginning_Date > #3/1/2019#, Beginning_Date, #3/1/2019#) ) as maxBegin,
(IIF (End_Date < #3/31/2019#, End_Date, #3/31/2019#) ) as minEnd
FROM Planning
Where Beginning_Date <= #3/31/2019# AND End_Date >= #3/1/2019#
) as z
GROUP BY Planning.Consultant_ID;
Finally, you need to substitute the actual Begin/End dates via params into the sql to run your query. Also note that the Holidays are only 14, not 15.
Also, you can add the Ratio calculation right into this sql, and have only one query.
Hi I am creating a table in MS Access to store the details of children in a school.
I have a field called YearGroup which needs to calculate the school year they are in based on their date of birth and whether they have been moved up or down a year.
I.e. if the expression deems they are six years old they should be placed in year 2. If they were moved down or up a year they should be in year 1 or 3 (this is based on another field in the table called YearModifier).
The code I have at the moment is this:
Year(Now()) - IIf(Month([DOB]) > 8, Year([DOB]) + 6 + [YearModifier], Year([DOB]) + 5 + [YearModifier])
My problem is that Year(Now()) is returning as invalid expression. Lots of websites have recognised using the Now() function and also I've tried Date() but nothing seems to be accepted by Access (The version is 2010).
What is going on? How can I get today's date in a calculated field expression?
Thanks
Try creating a query with all of the fields from your table, and then add an extra field YearGroup: Year(Now()) - IIf(Month([DOB]) > 8, Year([DOB]) + 6 + [YearModifier], Year([DOB]) + 5 + [YearModifier])
It appears that Date functions can't be used in calculated columns in tables.
You could use this to get the year, which might work in field expressions:
format(date(),"yyyy")
About your function (which I have re-written very slightly)
Year( Now() )
- Year([DOB])
- IIf( Month([DOB]) > 8
, 6
, 5 )
+ [YearModifier]
however!
I don't think you want to use now(). Which year they are in depend on their age at the 1st Sept at the start of the current academic year not now! Ok now will work until 31/dec/2015, so I must assume you will not be using the function after this date!
If you are you must use 2015 not Now().
Ok?
You can calculate the age of the children with a simple function:
Public Function AgeSimple( _
ByVal datDateOfBirth As Date) _
As Integer
' Returns the difference in full years from datDateOfBirth to current date.
'
' Calculates correctly for:
' leap years
' dates of 29. February
' date/time values with embedded time values
'
' DateAdd() is used for check for month end of February as it correctly
' returns Feb. 28. when adding a count of years to dates of Feb. 29.
' when the resulting year is a common year.
' After an idea of Markus G. Fischer.
'
' 2007-06-26. Cactus Data ApS, CPH.
Dim datToday As Date
Dim intAge As Integer
Dim intYears As Integer
datToday = Date
' Find difference in calendar years.
intYears = DateDiff("yyyy", datDateOfBirth, datToday)
If intYears > 0 Then
' Decrease by 1 if current date is earlier than birthday of current year
' using DateDiff to ignore a time portion of datDateOfBirth.
intAge = intYears - Abs(DateDiff("d", datToday, DateAdd("yyyy", intYears, datDateOfBirth)) > 0)
End If
AgeSimple = intAge
End Function
Then your expression would be something like this (ignoring the modifier):
ClassYear: IIf(AgeSimple([DOB]) > 6, 2, 1)
So my default values for startDate and endDate in SSRS were set up with the following ssrs expressions.
first day of previous month ssrs expression
=DateAdd(DateInterval.Month, -1, DateSerial(Year(Date.Now), Month(Date.Now), 1))
last day of previous month ssrs expression
=DateAdd(DateInterval.Day, -1, DateSerial(Year(Date.Now), Month(Date.Now), 1))
But that won't work alone in my case unless I want to go in on the 16th of every month and generate this report for the people requesting it for the first 15 days of the current month.
So in my default value expression for start date i am trying this iif statement...
= iif(
DatePart(DateInterval.Day, Today() <> "20",
DateInterval.Month, -1, DateSerial(Year(Date.Now), Month(Date.Now), 1),
DateInterval.Month, 1, DateSerial(Year(Date.Now), Month(Date.Now), 1)
)
Not working out so well. So what i'm trying to do is.....
Change the default start and end date based on what day of the current month it is, So if current day of the current month equals 16, make start date 1 of current month and end date 15 of current month, if current day of the month isn’t 16 make start date first of previous month and end date last day of previous month. So then the only thing needed is to get subscription emails and what day to send them out on.
Untested, but what if you try this? (for your start date parameter):
= iif(
DatePart(DateInterval.Day, Today()) <> "16",
DateAdd(DateInterval.Month, -1, DateSerial(Year(Date.Now), Month(Date.Now), 1)),
DateSerial(Year(Date.Now), Month(Date.Now), 1)
)
I get to dust off my VBScript hat and write some classic ASP to query a SQL Server 2000 database.
Here's the scenario:
I have two datetime fields called fieldA and fieldB.
fieldB will never have a year value that's greater than the year of fieldA
It is possible the that two fields will have the same year.
What I want is all records where fieldA >= fieldB, independent of the year. Just pretend that each field is just a month & day.
How can I get this? My knowledge of T-SQL date/time functions is spotty at best.
You may want to use the built in time functions such as DAY and MONTH. e.g.
SELECT * from table where
MONTH(fieldA) > MONTH(fieldB) OR(
MONTH(fieldA) = MONTH(fieldB) AND DAY(fieldA) >= DAY(fieldB))
Selecting all rows where either the fieldA's month is greater or the months are the same and fieldA's day is greater.
select *
from t
where datepart(month,t.fieldA) >= datepart(month,t.fieldB)
or (datepart(month,t.fieldA) = datepart(month,t.fieldB)
and datepart(day,t.fieldA) >= datepart(day,t.fieldB))
If you care about hours, minutes, seconds, you'll need to extend this to cover the cases, although it may be faster to cast to a suitable string, remove the year and compare.
select *
from t
where substring(convert(varchar,t.fieldA,21),5,20)
>= substring(convert(varchar,t.fieldB,21),5,20)
SELECT *
FROM SOME_TABLE
WHERE MONTH(fieldA) > MONTH(fieldB)
OR ( MONTH(fieldA) = MONTH(fieldB) AND DAY(fieldA) >= DAY(fieldB) )
I would approach this from a Julian date perspective, convert each field into the Julian date (number of days after the first of year), then compare those values.
This may or may not produce desired results with respect to leap years.
If you were worried about hours, minutes, seconds, etc., you could adjust the DateDiff functions to calculate the number of hours (or minutes or seconds) since the beginning of the year.
SELECT *
FROM SOME_Table
WHERE DateDiff(d, '1/01/' + Cast(DatePart(yy, fieldA) AS VarChar(5)), fieldA) >=
DateDiff(d, '1/01/' + Cast(DatePart(yy, fieldB) AS VarChar(5)), fieldB)
Temp table for testing
Create table #t (calDate date)
Declare #curDate date = '2010-01-01'
while #curDate < '2021-01-01'
begin
insert into #t values (#curDate)
Set #curDate = dateadd(dd,1,#curDate)
end
Example of any date greater than or equal to today
Declare #testDate date = getdate()
SELECT *
FROM #t
WHERE datediff(dd,dateadd(yy,1900 - year(#testDate),#testDate),dateadd(yy,1900 - year(calDate),calDate)) >= 0
One more example with any day less than today
Declare #testDate date = getdate()
SELECT *
FROM #t
WHERE datediff(dd,dateadd(yy,1900 - year(#testDate),#testDate),dateadd(yy,1900 - year(calDate),calDate)) < 0