calculate totals between dates?

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calculate totals between dates?

dcarpenter-708789

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July 15, 2009 at 9:33 am

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I'm not sure if what I'm looking to is possible, but here goes - I'm wanting to do is calculate activity between sales dates. Suppose I have a table that records car sales and I record 5 this month and I add 60 customers to our customer table this month is it possible cacultate the number of customers added between each sale???

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Allister Reid SSCrazy Points: 2666 More actions · Answer 1

Hi there,

Any chance you could post table structures with some sample data and your expected results?

Here is a very useful article on how to post this information: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/

///edited typo

ekla_pathik SSC Rookie Points: 48 More actions · Answer 2

You may have Customer_Created_Date in Customer table. And you have Sales_Date in Sales Table.

You can use

SELECT COUNT(Customer_ID) FROM Customer

WHERE Customer_Created_Date BETWEEN Sales_Date_1 AND Sales_Date_2

For Sales_Date_1 and 2, you can use nested query or view.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 3

ekla_pathik (7/15/2009)
You may have Customer_Created_Date in Customer table. And you have Sales_Date in Sales Table.
You can use
SELECT COUNT(Customer_ID) FROM Customer
WHERE Customer_Created_Date BETWEEN Sales_Date_1 AND Sales_Date_2
For Sales_Date_1 and 2, you can use nested query or view.

NO. Absolutely NOT. BETWEEN includes both items.

dcarpenter... are you all set on this or do you still need some help?

--Jeff Moden

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First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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