Selecting Data by Date for last five days AND avoiding weekend dates

  • What I am trying to do: Obtain attendance percentages for schools for the last five days. The outcome would look like this:

    DISTRICTGROUPING, SCHOOLNAME, 5 DAYS AGO PCTG, 4 DAYS AGO PCTG, 3 DAYS AGO PCTG, 2 DAYS AGO PCTG, 1 DAY AGO PCTG

    I am using nested subqueries for each day as follows: (total enrollment-total absent/total enrollment)

    ,(

    ((SELECTCOUNT(*)--GET TOTAL ENROLLMENT COUNT FOR SPECIFIED DATE

    FROMdbo.att_stu_day_memb ASD

    WHEREMEMBERSHIP_DATE = CONVERT(DATE,(SELECT DATEADD("d",-5,GETDATE())))

    ANDMEMBERSHIP_VALUE = 1

    ANDASD.BUILDING = RUB.BUILDING)

    -

    (SELECTCOUNT(*)--GETS TOTAL ABSENCES FOR SPECIFIED DATE

    FROMdbo.ATT_STU_DAY_TOTALS ASD

    WHEREATTENDANCE_CODE IN('E','U')

    ANDATTENDANCE_DATE = CONVERT(DATE,(SELECT DATEADD("d",-5,GETDATE())))

    ANDASD.BUILDING = RUB.BUILDING))

    /

    CAST((SELECTCOUNT(*)--GET TOTAL ENROLLMENT COUNT FOR SPECIFIED DATE

    FROMdbo.att_stu_day_memb ASD

    WHEREMEMBERSHIP_DATE = CONVERT(DATE,(SELECT DATEADD("d",-5,GETDATE())))

    ANDMEMBERSHIP_VALUE = 1

    ANDASD.BUILDING = RUB.BUILDING) AS FLOAT)

    )

    AS'PERCENTAGE 5'

    The query works with the following exceptions:

    My issues are:

    1. Avoid the "division by zero" error. This can occur if a school is closed for a day or if a smaller school has no absences for a day.

    2. Avoid weekend dates. I need the query to display only weekdays

    3. Currently I am using "PERCENTAGE 5: as a column header whereas I need the actual date as the header.

    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  • In your WHERE clause, you could try:

    WHERE DATEPART(dw, getdate()) in (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

    That should give you only weekdays.

  • miles_lesperance (4/16/2014)


    In your WHERE clause, you could try:

    WHERE DATEPART(dw, getdate()) in (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

    That should give you only weekdays.

    quick note...make sure you understand what is the first day of your week

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181598(v=sql.100).aspx

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  • miles_lesperance (4/16/2014)


    In your WHERE clause, you could try:

    WHERE DATEPART(dw, getdate()) in (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

    That should give you only weekdays.

    That doesn't really capture what the OP is looking for. This just means the query will return results if the current day of week is Monday - Friday (assuming the first day of the week is Sunday). That does NOT do any filtering of the data.

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  • I think this query will give you what you need in separate rows. If so, let us know, and we can pivot it to a single row.

    DECLARE @control_date datetime

    SET @control_date = GETDATE()

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    SET @control_date = DATEADD(DAY, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, @control_date), 0) -- strip time

    DECLARE @first_date_to_pull datetime

    SET @first_date_to_pull = DATEADD(DAY, -5, @control_date)

    SET @first_date_to_pull = DATEADD(DAY, CASE

    WHEN DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, @first_date_to_pull) = 0 THEN 0 --Mon

    WHEN DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, @first_date_to_pull) IN (1, 5) THEN -1 --Tue,Sun

    ELSE -2 END, @first_date_to_pull)

    --SELECT @first_date_to_pull

    SELECT

    DATEADD(DAY, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, MEMBERSHIP_DATE), 0) AS MEMBERSHIP_DATE,

    COUNT(*) AS TOTAL_ENROLLMENT,

    SUM(CASE WHEN ATTENDANCE_CODE IN('E','U') THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS TOTAL_ABSENCES

    FROM dbo.att_stu_day_memb ASD

    WHERE

    MEMBERSHIP_DATE >= @first_date_to_pull

    AND MEMBERSHIP_DATE < @control_date

    AND DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, MEMBERSHIP_DATE) NOT IN (5, 6) --Sat,Sun

    AND MEMBERSHIP_VALUE = 1

    AND ASD.BUILDING = RUB.BUILDING

    GROUP BY

    DATEADD(DAY, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, MEMBERSHIP_DATE), 0)

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  • Thank you for all of your input.

    I recently learned that the days that I must gather data for is for the last 5 school days. All days that had no classes must be eliminated. My team is currently collaborating on creating a function that will handle this requirement.

    Again, thank you for your input.

    Dan Tuma

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