AW: SQL Date Range Problem with Between -- RPG400-L

Chandana,

you may check if the performance with the concatenation or multiplication
will be sufficient.
(An index may be used if there are also other selection criteria).

If there are no other selection criteria a table scan may be executed when
concatenating or multiplying. If it is a large file a table scan will take a
lot of time.
If so you may try something like the following where conditions, which are
more complex, but the optimizer may use an index built over the year, month
and date field

where (MyYear = 2009 and MyMonth = 10 and MyDay >= 15)
or (MyYear = 2009 and MyMonth in(11, 12))
or (MyYear = 2010 and MyMonth <= 3 )
or (MyYear = 2010 and MyMonth = 4 and MyDay <= 8)

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Birgitta Hauser

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Von: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im
Auftrag von Vern Hamberg
Gesendet: Saturday, 30. January 2010 17:40
An: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Betreff: Re: SQL Date Range Problem with Between

Hi Chandana

Well, your second one won't work, because BETWEEN is the same as CALD >=
14 and CALD <= 10 - there is nothing that fits that criteria.

It is never reliable or simple to compare multiple values with ranges -
you end up with VERY complex conditions. I mean, you'd require multiple
BETWEENs for the second one - the first would be from 14 to the last day
of the month - which is not the same always, so you have to account for
that plus leap years - well, you see what I mean!!

I think you really need to either convert your numbers to character and
concatenate to a single value. You probably need to use the DIGITS
function if these will come from columns. I assume that CALY is 4,0 and
CALM and CALD are both 2,0 - DIGITS() preserves leading zeroes, which
you must have here.

Select sum(SALES)
From Daysales WHERE CPY = 22 and STR = 1234 AND
digits(CALY) concat digits(calm) concat digits(cald)
BETWEEN '20090714' And '20090810';

Or use multiplication

Select sum(SALES)
From Daysales WHERE CPY = 22 and STR = 1234 AND
CALY * 10000 = calm * 100 + cald BETWEEN 20090714
And 20090810;

Mulitiplication tends to take more cycles than concatenation, I think,
but maybe it doesn't matter these days.

HTH
Vern
Chandana Silva wrote:

Hello,

I am sure someone has hit this bottleneck before with the BETWEEN

operator.

My search online was not successful.

Objective is to get a total for a date range within different

months/years.

This statement works fine, for the same month.

Select sum(SALES)
From Daysales WHERE CPY = 22 and STR = 1234 AND
CALY BETWEEN 2009 And 2009 AND
CALM BETWEEN 07 And 07 AND : This is in July
CALD BETWEEN 14 And 31;

This statement Returns zero if the CALD is less than 14. But I haven't

verified if value is correct even if the CALD > 14.

Select sum(SALES)
From Daysales WHERE CPY = 22 and STR = 1234 AND
CALY BETWEEN 2009 And 2009 AND
CALM BETWEEN 07 And 08 AND : This is from July thr Aug

CALD BETWEEN 14 And 10;

Any help is greatly appreciated.