RE: Showcase Date Handling

["Schutte, Michael D" <Michael_Schutte@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You probably should do it right in the group by.  I just prefer the cte because it appears cleaner. 

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 2:24 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Showcase Date Handling

Michael...would I need a CTE? I could probably do the substringing
right in the GROUP BY (and a SELECT up higher), right?

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Schutte, Michael D
<Michael_Schutte@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not sure what showcase is. But in sql you could do
>
>
> With cte as (
> Select a.*,
> Case when dec(substring(digits(mydate), 5, 2),2,0) >= 10 then dec(substring(digits(mydate), 1, 4), 4, 0) + 1
>     Else dec(substring(digits(mydate), 1, 4), 4, 0)
> END as MYYEAR
> FROM MYFILE A
> )
> Select MYYEAR, ... from cte group by MYYEAR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 1:43 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Showcase Date Handling
>
> Anyone know how I would do this from Showcase:
>
> GROUP BY
>        CASE
>        WHEN MONTH ( DATE ( MYDATE, YYYYMMDD ) ) >= 10 THEN YEAR ( DATE (
> MYDATE, YYYYMMDD ) ) + 1
>        ELSE YEAR ( DATE ( MYDATE, YYYYMMDD ) )
> END
>
> in standard SQL? MYDATE is an 8.0 numeric field containing a date like 20110916.
>
> Thanks!
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