November 1, 2017 at 10:20 am
Guys,
I am adapting the below code and i understand what it is doing with the exception of the d, ISNULL. Can someone help explain what this is doing?
SUM(CASE WHEN DATEDIFF(d, ISNULL(c.Folldate, '01-jan-1900'), Getdate()) BETWEEN 0 AND 7 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS [0-7 Days old]
November 1, 2017 at 10:24 am
d and ISNULL(c.Folldate, '01-jan-1900') are the first two arguments of the DATEDIFF function. d means days, and ISNULL(c.Folldate, '01-jan-1900') means c.Folldate unless it's NULL, in which case 1st January 1900. So here, the DATEDIFF function finds the number of days between c.Folldate and today, or between 1st January 1900 and today if c.Folldate is NULL.
John
November 1, 2017 at 10:27 am
ISNULL returns the value of the second parameter if the first parameter has the value NULL. So, in the case, if the value of c.Folldate is NULL, then the value '01-Jan-1900' will be used instead.
Thom~
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Larnu.uk
November 3, 2017 at 3:15 pm
Thom A - Wednesday, November 1, 2017 10:27 AMISNULL returns the value of the second parameter if the first parameter has the value NULL. So, in the case, if the value of c.Folldate is NULL, then the value '01-Jan-1900' will be used instead.
The truly sad part is that the ISNULL is completely unnecessary, which makes this harder to read. The overall purpose of the query is to COUNT how many records have a FollDate value within the last 7 days. The isnull is attempting to account for NULLs and not count them: this would have happened by default even without going through and adding the ISNULL.
Edit:
Craig - pretty sure you just need this:
SUM(
CASE
WHEN DATEDIFF(day,c.Folldate, Getdate()) BETWEEN 0 AND 7
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END
) AS [0-7 Days old]
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