How to return a quarter for every person

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How to return a quarter for every person

Patrick Allmond

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May 19, 2005 at 1:18 pm

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If I have a person table and a fiscal quarter table (for rows for each year) is there a way to merge the two so I can get four rows returned for each employee? There is nothing to "JOIN" the two.
The eventual goal is to JOIN it with a third table of actvities and each activity will match up with an employeeid and quarter. We want to get ALL four quarters for ALL employees - even if there were no actvities for a quarter. In other words we want to report on quarters for employees that did nothing for the quarters as well as the multiple activities a person might have had in a quarter.
TIA.
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Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 1

You mean something like this?

Select O.name, dtQuarters.DateStart, dtQuarters.DateEnd from dbo.SysObjects O cross join

(

Select '2005/01/01' as DateStart, '2005/03/31' as DateEnd

union all

Select '2005/04/01' as DateStart, '2005/06/30' as DateEnd

union all

Select '2005/07/01' as DateStart, '2005/09/30' as DateEnd

union all

Select '2005/10/01' as DateStart, '2005/12/31' as DateEnd

) dtQuarters

Order by O.Name, dtQuarters.DateStart

Farrell Keough SSCoach Points: 17414 More actions · Answer 2

If you already have a Quarter table, this may work as well.

CREATE TABLE #Person( [ID] integer,

[Name] varchar(20))

INSERT INTO #Person

SELECT 1, 'Joe Smith'

UNION ALL

SELECT 2, 'Jane Jones'

CREATE TABLE #Quarter( Qrtr smalldatetime)

INSERT INTO #Quarter

SELECT '01/01/2005'

UNION ALL

SELECT '04/01/2005'

UNION ALL

SELECT '07/01/2005'

UNION ALL

SELECT '10/01/2005'

SELECT [ID], Qrtr

FROM #Person, #Quarter

DROP TABLE #Person

DROP TABLE #Quarter

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Patrick Allmond SSChasing Mays Points: 613 More actions · Answer 3

Absolutely incredible. Thank you very much. I had no idea what a cross join was or that it even existed. We are cheering in the streets here.

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Patrick Allmond
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Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 4

Actually what Farrell proposed is the same solution than mine with an older syntaxe, if you don't specify a join in a query with multiple tables, then a cross join is executed.

Farrell Keough SSCoach Points: 17414 More actions · Answer 5

Correct. I was just working under the assumption they had a populated Quarter table...

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Patrick Allmond SSChasing Mays Points: 613 More actions · Answer 6

Your assumption is correct. We felt we had to prepop a quarter table to get out what we wanted.

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Patrick Allmond
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Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 7

You don't HAVE TO but it's better than doing a derived table like I did since it can be modified in the table instead of in the procs...