Re: SQL Date Math

Don,

2 ways -

1st - I use the UDF function iDate (by Alan Campin available free at
www.think400.dk/downloads.htm - Thanks Alan!) to tranlate the data field
into a date, then compare with the current date.

when iDate(refdta) = curdate()

Nice clean and easy.

When digits(year(curdate))


On Nov 15, 2007 12:11 PM, Don Cavaiani <dcavaiani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In System i5 Query (WRKQRY) I do the following:
------------------------------------------------
Result fields:

Today current(date)
Todaychar char(today)
Today2 '20' || substr(todaychar,7,2) || substr(todaychar,1,2 ||
substr(todaychar, 4,2)
Refdta digits(refdt)
-------------------------------------------------
Then:

In Select Test:

refdta LE today2
--------------------------------
How would I do the same in SQL?




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One last time trial...
Instead of something like
select * from ...
where myNbrDate>CvtDateToNumISO(...)
Try:
select * from ...
where CvtNumISOToDate(myNbrDate)>...
Which will really tell us why you hose up the index by converting the
file data to the input data instead of converting the input data to the
file data.

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That was interesting. Here are the results.

All run in interactive SQL, approximately 56M records. Index built
over the numeric field (which took a freaking long time btw - like 10
minutes).

Using CvtDateToNumISO function with no index - 45 seconds
Using function code with no index - 38 seconds
Using CvtDateToNumISO function with index - 11 seconds
Using function code with index - 2 seconds

On Nov 13, 2007 7:05 PM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes...going from date to numeric. I just named it backwards to throw
off the opposition. :)

Sure...I'll give it a go first thing in the morning, and I'll post my
results back here. I'll also create an index over the numeric field
and see how that helps things.

On Nov 13, 2007 5:28 PM, Elvis Budimlic

<ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Michael,

Do you mean CvtDateToNumISO? Going from DATE to NUMERIC, not the

other way

around.

If so, do you mind running another test?

Take Charles' code out of the UDF and put it in the SQL statement

itself.

Then run it.
I'm curious to see if UDF call itself contributes any significant

overhead.

BTW, do you have an index over the numeric(8,0) field?
If not, I think it would be worth running a test again after you

create one.

Elvis

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Subject: Re: SQL Date Math

Charles' CvtNumtoDateISO function works swell! It takes 120 seconds
for my query (56M records) using the date and substr method, and 39
seconds for the CvtNumToDateISO method. And that's on the

development

system. Much faster on the production system.




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