Date Formula??

Question

Post Author: mklafert
CA Forum: Formula
I am writing a report that will compare monthly sales.  Example Jan 06 to Jan07 .  I have fields called This year sales for period 1, This year sales for period 2 etc.  I also have fields called last year sales for period 1, Last year sales for period 2, etc.  I want all Tweleve months on the same report.  I assume I must write a formula that when I want to compare teh sales for the indiviual months for the whole year of 07 then it will print the this year sales for period 1-12 and last year sales for period 1-12  but like the example below:
Jan 06   feb06   march 06 etc
2,000    3,000     4,000
Jan07  Feb 07  March 07
4,000  2,000      3,000
I am doing this in excel I have one row for the 1st year jan 06-dec 06.  Then on the second row jan 0-dec 07.  If necesary I guess I could do :
Jan 06 jan07 then I wil lhave a formula that will figure out the percentage difference in sales.  Hope this is clear.  Thanks for any Help In Advance.

Answer 1

Use datepart() function to calculate age:
For help take a look at link
http://www.sql-server-helper.com/tips/tip-of-the-day.aspx?tkey=62abfa55-b96d-42da-8083-e2adfbb13476&tkw=uses-of-the-datepart-date-function
 DECLARE @BirthDate    DATETIME
SELECT DATEPART(YYYY, GETDATE()) - DATEPART(YYYY, @BirthDate) - CASE WHEN DATEPART(MM, GETDATE())  > DATEPART(MM, @BirthDate) OR
                (DATEPART(MM, GETDATE())  = DATEPART(MM, @BirthDate) AND
                 DATEPART(DD, GETDATE()) >= DATEPART(DD, @BirthDate))
            THEN 0 ELSE 1 END AS [Age]  
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