eed to get previous quarter date from current date

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eed to get previous quarter date from current date

BKW

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July 31, 2008 at 9:36 am

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Can anyone help me with this one.
I need to get the previous quarter from the current date.
example: If today is 07/31/2008 I need to know the previous quarter which would be 06/30/2008.
I can get current quarter but cannot figure out how to get last quarter.
SELECT DATEADD(quarter, DATEDIFF(quarter, -1, GETDATE()), -1) --get last day of current quarter
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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 1

I think this will work regardless of the date you pass in.

SELECT DateAdd(Day, -1, DateAdd(quarter, DatePart(Quarter, getdate())-1, '1/1/' + Convert(char(4), DatePart(Year, getdate()))))

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Simon E Doubt SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4191 More actions · Answer 2

Have you got a table which stores the date ranges for each of your quarters?

Such a table might look like this:

QID QuarterStartDate QEndDate

=== ============= =======

1 Jan 1 2008 Mar 31 2008

2 Apr 1 2008 Jun 30 2008

You could use that table to determine which quarter you're in from the present date, and then subtract 1 from the value of the QID field to get the previous quarter.

Hope that helps a bit.

- Simon

Christopher Stobbs SSC-Insane Points: 21098 More actions · Answer 3

Nice solution Jack, too me a bit to work it out but I ended up with the same solution 😉

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Jeffrey Williams SSC Guru Points: 90303 More actions · Answer 4

You were really close, review the following:

select dateadd(quarter, datediff(quarter, 0, getdate()) - 0, 0)

,dateadd(quarter, datediff(quarter, 0, getdate()) - 1, 0)

,dateadd(quarter, datediff(quarter, 0, getdate()) - 2, 0)

,dateadd(quarter, datediff(quarter, 0, getdate()) - 3, 0);

select dateadd(quarter, datediff(quarter, -1, getdate()) - 0, -1)

,dateadd(quarter, datediff(quarter, -1, getdate()) - 1, -1)

,dateadd(quarter, datediff(quarter, -1, getdate()) - 2, -1)

,dateadd(quarter, datediff(quarter, -1, getdate()) - 3, -1);

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BKW Ten Centuries Points: 1350 More actions · Answer 5

Thanks Jack, that works great. I would have been here all week working that one out (if at all).

Simon, had not thought about storing in a table. Good idea too.

Thanks all;)

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Christopher Stobbs SSC-Insane Points: 21098 More actions · Answer 6

Thats the one,

since my last post I been trying to find a way to do it without doing a CHAR cast.

Well done Jeff thats awesome 🙂

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tomasz.wieczorkowski SSC Rookie Points: 36 More actions · Answer 7

Last year:

(DT_WSTR,4)YEAR(DATEADD("yy",-1,GETDATE()))

Last Quarter:

(DT_WSTR,1)DATEPART("qq",DATEADD("qq",-1,GETDATE()))

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 8

Here are some routines: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/lynnpettis/2009/03/25/some-common-date-routines/