Re: To function or not to function, that is the question at hand

I might be able to work with this. But not quite where I was going with this
either. What I wrote before was the old query I had. Now I need it to look
more like

where date >= (SELECT DATE(CONCAT('20', CONCAT(YY, CONCAT('-', CONCAT( MM,
(CONCAT('-', DD))))))) FROM LIB/FILE') and date <= (SELECT
DATE(CONCAT('20', CONCAT(EYY, CONCAT('-', CONCAT(EMM, (CONCAT('-',
EDD))))))) FROM LIB/FILE')

I was hoping to return a single value so I don't clutter my statements with
all of that junk.

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me


On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Christen, Duane
<Duane.Christen@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Mike;

If the table where your YY MM DD date is stored contains a single record,
as your sql implies, then I would create a view:

Create View PeriodOpenDate
SELECT DATE(CONCAT('20', CONCAT(YY, CONCAT('-', CONCAT( MM,
(CONCAT('-', DD))))))) as openDate FROM LIB/FILE;


Duane Christen


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Subject: To function or not to function, that is the question at hand

I am working on some SQL statements for an ASP.NET application. One of the
things that is required is to only display information in an open period.
The period is updated automatically by the vendor software as the previous
period is closed. So I finding myself doing a bunch of sub selects like:

where date >= (SELECT DATE(CONCAT('20', CONCAT(YY, CONCAT('-', CONCAT( MM,
(CONCAT('-', DD))))))) FROM LIB/FILE')

Yes, each portion of the date is in separate fields.

Would making this query a function make the query more efficient? I have
never created a function before how would I do that? My thought is having
something like:

IsInRange(date)

So I can do "WHERE IsInRange(date)".

Or is there a better way?

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me
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