Count and range columns based on amount of time

Question

I'm doing SSRS and I have a table that has two different datetime columns called TranTime and AppTime.
What I want to do is take the difference in time between those tables and do some counting based on that difference calculated.  For example, if the difference between the two dates is less than 5 minutes, then I want to have a column that counts
the number of rows that have less than 5 minutes.  I want to do the same thing to count the number of rows that are greater than or equal to 5 minutes, but less than 10 minutes.  And have another column that is greater than or equal to10 minutes,
but less than 15.  And then have a final row that counts all of the rest of the rows that are 15 minutes or greater.  I think I have to use some sort of case statement but I keep getting error messages. Any thoughts...? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi jrcowles94,
According to your description, you have two datetime type columns in your report. Now you want to count the number of records based on the difference of these two data fields. Right?
In this scenario, we can use DateDiff function to get the difference between two datetime. Then we use IIF function to make judgement inside of aggregation fucntion, also specify the scope for the aggregation function. We have tested your case in our local
environment. Please try the expressions below:
<5: =sum(IIF(DateDiff(DateInterval.Minute,Fields!TranDate.Value,Fields!AppDate.Value)<5,1,0),"DataSet1")
5-10: =sum(IIF(DateDiff(DateInterval.Minute,Fields!TranDate.Value,Fields!AppDate.Value)>5 and DateDiff(DateInterval.Minute,Fields!TranDate.Value,Fields!AppDate.Value)<10,1,0),"DataSet1")
>10: =sum(IIF(DateDiff(DateInterval.Minute,Fields!TranDate.Value,Fields!AppDate.Value)>10,1,0),"DataSet1")
The result looks like below:
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
Best Regards,
Simon Hou