Newbie - simple Query Question - function

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Newbie - simple Query Question - function

jason 84805

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September 9, 2017 at 6:43 am

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I want to get the financial Year for a date. I have this:
(Year(DateAdd("m",-3,[MyDate]))) + ' - ' + (Year(DateAdd("m",9,[MyDate])))AS financial_year
But it doesnt work - it adds them together instead of:
2016 - 2017
Each part works correctly until I put them together

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pietlinden SSC Guru Points: 63503 More actions · Answer 1

If you want YYYY - YYYY then you have to cast the Years as strings, otherwise, T-SQL will interpret the + as the addition operator. Check out CAST()

jason 84805 SSC Enthusiast Points: 186 More actions · Answer 2

SOLVED-
convert(varchar(4),(Year(DateAdd("m",-3,[myDate])))) + ' - ' + convert(varchar(4), (Year(DateAdd("m",9,[myDate])))) AS financial_year

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 3

Recommend you use CHAR(4) instead of VARCHAR(4). Right sizing and using the right datatype is a good habit to get into. VARCHAR(4) actually takes 6 bytes (4 for data, 2 to identify the size of the data). It may not matter on one or two rows but it will when you start doing some heavy lifting.

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