Query time after specified date

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Query time after specified date

jham55

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April 10, 2020 at 3:54 pm

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I need help with a query. If I have a list of people each with a service date and I want to sum their spend one year and two years after their service date what is the best way to approach it?
So I have a field that identifies the member, one that identifies the specific service and then a field that is the spend. Thoughts would be helpful.

thanks
Andy

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 1

use DATEADD in your WHERE clause. you can use this to add 1 and 2 years to the date, and then limit the data returned in an aggregate.]

Something like:

select userid
, sum(somecol)
from table
where mydate > servicedate and < dateadd(year, 1, servicedate)
group by userid

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004340 More actions · Answer 2

jham55 wrote:

I need help with a query. If I have a list of people each with a service date and I want to sum their spend one year and two years after their service date what is the best way to approach it?
So I have a field that identifies the member, one that identifies the specific service and then a field that is the spend. Thoughts would be helpful.
thanks
Andy

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jham55 SSC Enthusiast Points: 115 More actions · Answer 3

Thanks Steve,

So here is what I think has gotten me the closest. I'm getting almost all the results I want. This query gets me a userid, an anchor date ,a date 1 year later and sum of 1 day. Now I need to sum the dollars between the anchor date and the date 1 year later.

Select *

from

( select distinct (1)

userid

servicedate as anchordate

,dateadd(year,1,servicedate) as year1date

,sum(sales) as salestotal

from table

where sales>0

group by

userid

service date) as S