Re: SQL Inspiration needed -- MIDRANGE-L

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No can do, at least in my experience.

The only way to do this simply is to create a different table, populated with dates and their business day numbers. Then you find the day number for the source date, add the number of days, and fetch the date for the resulting day number.

Then again, that's also a quick way to do it in RPG, so it's not a bad solution overall. The problem is maintaining the day number table - every time someone changes a date from business to non-business, you have to re-generate the table.

Joe

I'm collecting alternative solutions for a couple of SQL "problems" - things that would be relatively easy (if laborious) in native RPG.

So ... given that I have a table ORDERS which contains order and shipping dates, I need to populate the shipping dates such that the shipping date is 6 "business days" after the order date.

Business days can be determined from a calendar table keyed on date and which contains a "Y" or "N" to indicate whether that date is a business day or not.

Any ideas? The only ones we come up with are so darn nasty.

Jon Paris

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