SQL code needed for the WHERE clause..

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SQL code needed for the WHERE clause..

Tamrak

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July 1, 2024 at 11:31 pm

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I have a table with data appending on a daily basis. We plan to keep the set of data in this table for one full year and delete everything after August 1st of every year.
I am stuck with the query logic to do this. The situations are like this:
If today's date is August 1st, regardless of the year, delete data from the entire table. Or else, do nothing and keep appending the data. The getdate() can be used as well but needs to round down the time to midnight of August the 1st.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

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Ed B Hall of Fame Points: 3669 More actions · Answer 1

Assuming you delete/append once per day, can you truncate the table if today is the 1st of August? This is set to truncate on the 2nd of July for testing. If the code will run multiple times per day then I would change it to delete where DateTimeColumn < TargetDate.

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.AppendData
CREATE TABLE dbo.AppendData (Col1 INT, Col2 INT, DateTimeColumn DATETIME)
GO

DECLARE @Today DATE,  
        @TargetDate DATE

SET @Today = CAST(GETDATE() AS DATE)
SET @TargetDate = DATEFROMPARTS(DATEPART(YEAR,GETDATE()),7,2)

IF @Today = @TargetDate
  BEGIN
    TRUNCATE TABLE dbo.AppendData
    --OR
    DELETE  dbo.AppendData
    WHERE DateTimeColumn < CAST(@TargetDate AS DATETIME)
  END

GO
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.AppendData

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004401 More actions · Answer 2

I wouldn't use DELETE on a year old table. That'll be a lot to delete and it'll cause a "log file explosion".

I probably also wouldn't do a whole year at a time but that might just be me.

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Ken McKelvey SSCoach Points: 18852 More actions · Answer 3

If you are dealing with large amounts of transactional data you may also want to look at table partitioning or partitioned views.