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On 06-May-2014 10:26 -0500, Hoteltravelfundotcom wrote:
There is some bad data in our system. There is a lack of validate
checking. In this case, can this SQL reject for processing any such
bad dates? Bad dates are defined as month>12 and days accordingly

SELECT ALL
T01.UAUSRN
, SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 5, 2) CONCAT '/' CONCAT /* MM/ */
SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 7, 2) CONCAT '/' CONCAT /* DD/ */
SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 3, 2) /* YY */
AS FOLLOWUP
, T01.UAENT#
, T01.UASFX#
, T02.ADENTN
, T01.UANOTT
, T01.UANOTL
, T02.ADLNM
, T02.ADFNM
, T01.UAFLWD
FROM ASTDTA.NOTEHDUA T01
INNER JOIN ASTDTA.ADRESsad T02
ON UAENT# = ADENT#
AND UASFX# = ADSFX#
WHERE UAFLWD BETWEEN 20000101 AND 20991231
and ( /* month with full 31 days */
( SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 5, 2) IN
(01, 03, 05, 07, 08, 10, 12)
and SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 7, 2) BETWEEN
01 AND 31
)
or /* month with only 30 days */
( SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 5, 2) IN
(04, 06, 09, 11)
and SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 7, 2) BETWEEN
01 AND 30
)
or /* month with 28 days min. */
( SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 5, 2) = 02
and SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 7, 2) BETWEEN
01 AND 28
)
or /* month with 29 days; leap */
( SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 5, 2) = 02
and SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 7, 2) = 29
and ( MOD(SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 1, 4), 4) = 0
and ( MOD(SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 1, 4), 100) <> 0
or MOD(SUBSTR(DIGITS(UAFLWD), 1, 4), 400) = 0
)
)
)
) /* this compound predicate was not tested, as shown */
AND UAPRGD < 1
AND UANOTT = 'E'
ORDER BY 001 ASC, 008 ASC

The above quoted query, with the additional selection shown inline, will process\include only rows whereby the value for the field\column UAFLWD [which is defined as a numeric data type and must contain only valid numeric data] is a valid date-like representation in decimal digits having the format commonly described as YYYYMMDD.

If not obvious, all of the additional selection might best be encapsulated in a User Defined Function (UDF), and a comparison be made against the result of the UDF; i.e. making the additional selection a simple [not] equal or IS NOT NULL predicate. For example, the predicate (vfyYYYYMMDD(CHAR(UAFLWD, 8)) IS NOT NULL) that invokes a UDF named vfyYYYYMMDD [using an argument casting the numeric to a CHAR(8) which, while not generally acceptable, likely would be functional in the given scenario; i.e. contrast with the DIGITS scalar], as described in http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200911/msg01241.html# [Note: the hash character as suffix intends to imply the _fixed_ in the upper right of the page should be clicked to view in /fixed format/ instead of the default presentation in a variable pitch font; no idea why that is not directly the effect when the hash character is provided as the suffix].

Another option is to use a calendar table with a lookup\join between the decimal date-like value to the like [or missing] value in the calendar data; e.g. using an EXISTS predicate. A recursive Common Table Expression (CTE) [RCTE] to generate the calendar data, as a derived table scoped to the query may even be acceptable even for the noted 100-year window [per fewer than 36600 rows of data; i.e. ~365.25*100], especially if the query is run seldom or there is little desire to maintain the calendar table in\for the app.

As Rob suggests, the ideal situation is that the data has constraints defined [CHECK constraints] to prevent any bad date values if the values as decimal digits must be represented as dates. However a test that effects a data mapping error [such as the example Rob gave] is not valid to find check-pending rows because the query will fail. The example in the above referenced archived message [whence the example compound predicate as addendum to the query quoted from the OP came] using a CASE expression can validate the data without a mapping error.


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