Using DateDiff to calculate days before a Birthday

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kenkob SSChasing Mays Points: 642 More actions · Answer 1

Jeff,

Year = A similiar error, Error Parsing Line 1 at 29 error = (

DatePart = error Parsing line 1 at 33

I am using Northwind.sdf Employees table which has a Birthdate field for the example

cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM Employees YEAR(GETDATE())"

cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM Employees DATEPART(yy,GETDATE())"

kenkob SSChasing Mays Points: 642 More actions · Answer 2

Jeff,

Just entering SELECT YEAR(GETDATE()) give the error Function is not recognized by SQL Server Compact Edition of Function [Year]

Running DATEPART returned 2010

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 3

kenkob (9/10/2010)
Jeff,
Just entering SELECT YEAR(GETDATE()) give the error Function is not recognized by SQL Server Compact Edition of Function [Year]
Running DATEPART returned 2010

Then doing a little substitution in my orginal query should do the trick... (I'll let you change the DB name/schema if necessary)

SELECT *

FROM AdventureWorks.HumanResources.Employee

WHERE DATEDIFF(dd,

DATEADD(yy, -(DATEPART(yy,GETDATE())-1900),GETDATE()), --Today

DATEADD(yy, -(DATEPART(yy,BirthDate)-1900),BirthDate)

) BETWEEN 1 AND 10

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
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Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

kenkob SSChasing Mays Points: 642 More actions · Answer 4

Jeff,

After a little trouble I have got it working. When I attempted to use it as a SqlCe CommandText string surrounded by inverted commas, I was always getting an error. However, by adding the code copied directly from the web forum page into a multiline textbox it worked fine.

Thank you very much for your help.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 5

kenkob (9/12/2010)
Jeff,
After a little trouble I have got it working. When I attempted to use it as a SqlCe CommandText string surrounded by inverted commas, I was always getting an error. However, by adding the code copied directly from the web forum page into a multiline textbox it worked fine.
Thank you very much for your help.

Thanks for the feedback, Ken. I usually end up pasting the copy from the forum into MS Word which "fixes" a lot of stuff from forums and then copy/paste to my application. Almost the same thing as you did.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)