RE: Query problems

You might double-check that InvMonth is defined with zero decimal places.
Otherwise, for March dates it would end up with a value of 3.something which
would cause them to be excluded.  This could explain what you are seeing.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [SMTP:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 9:11 AM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Query problems
> 
> I am having a problem in a query, that I did a work around for, but
> don't' know why it happens.
> 
> We have some dates in MMDDYY format stored as numbers.
> 
> In a query I define some result fields as:
> Temp1      ARINDT / 100
> Temp2      Temp1 * 100
> InvYear     ARINDT - Temp2
> InvMonth   ARINDT / 10000
> 
> Then, in my select records I have
>             InvYear      EQ     98
> AND    InvMonth   GE     10
> OR       InvYear      EQ     99
> AND    InvMonth    LE     03
> 
> The whole idea being to get the range of records from 10/01/98 to
> 03/31/99
> 
> Well, it works but... I do no have any data for 03/xx/99  I have January
> and February but not March, and I don't know why.
> 
> To resolve this I finally made yet some more result fields:
> 
> Temp3         InvYear * 100
> InvYYMM   Temp3 + InvMonth
> 
> Then, I select for
>            InvYYMM   GE    9810
> AND  InvYYMM    LE    9903
> 
> Which works, and gives me all the records.
> 
> Is this a bug I'm looking at?  I'm on V3R7M0
> 
> And do you know of an easier way to do this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
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