Date to Quarter Conversion

Hi ,
I need to get the quarter from posting date..
Please let me know the function module to get the quarter from the date.
Thanks
Vishal

Hi Vishal,
Try with automatic time conversion.
please check here..
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/80/1a653be07211d2acb80000e829fbfe/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/helpdata/en/45/d3bd241ae76f75e10000000a1553f6/content.htm
Thanks,
Vijay.

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It looks like the CONVERT (the same goes for CAST) function treats DATE and DATETIME conversions differently when executed by a user with the Dutch language settings.
Here is what I mean, I run the following query:
SELECT CONVERT(DATE, '2014-09-01 23:00:00'), CONVERT(DATETIME, '2014-09-01 23:00:00')
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Can someone explain why this is happening? And maybe more important how to prevent it or workaround it (changing the language for the user from Dutch to default is not an option)?

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CONVERT() is an old Sybase string function. It was created to keep 960's COBOL programmers happy since SQL does not have a PICTURE clause to put data in display formats.
CAST() is the ANSI/ISO Standard function to convert data types and this is what you should be using. It is not a string function. It uses the ISO-8601 standard for dates (yyyy-mm-dd), as you have seen. This is the only -– repeat, only! -- format allowed in
SQL. Microsoft is a few decades behind and trying to catch up now.
A good SQL programmer will do any local display formatting in the presentation, which will handle local languages that are never used in the database. Want to have some fun? The names of months in Polish, Czech, Croatian, Ukrainian and Belarusian not based
on the Latin names used in most European languages.
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I need to implement reports with year to date, rolling quarter (current month + 2 previous month) measures, etc...
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Need help in date to number conversion

Hi,
I have a doubt in a date conversion, please help me.
I executed the below query, its throwing "invalid number" error.
select * from test
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Use to_date instead of your to_char, and to_char instead of your to_number.
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I want to select a number of rows created within last week.
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Everything works fine, but I get warnings like this one:
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SQL>CREATE TABLE t (id number, dt1 date, dt2 date);
Table created.
SQL> CREATE PROCEDURE p1 AS
2 BEGIN
3     FOR r IN (SELECT * FROM t
4               WHERE dt1 = sysdate - 7) LOOP
5        NULL;
6     END LOOP;
7 END;
8 /
SQL>/
SP2-0804: Procedure created with compilation warnings
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LINE/COL ERROR
3/13     PLW-07204: conversion away from column type may result in
         sub-optimal query planThe warning in this case is clearly spurious, and the reason is, at the level the compiler is looking, they are different data types. dt1 was inserted as sysdate a few minutes before I did the dunp below.
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2         DUMP(sysdate) sys_date
3 FROM t;
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Typ=12 Len=7: 120,107,2,27,10,45,42 Typ=13 Len=8: 7,215,2,24,9,44,41,0 Typ=13 Len=8: 7,215,2,27,9,49,13,0A date field in a table is a type 12 while sysdate, and any date that has is a result of a calculation is a type 13. Clearly a "different" datatype.
Practically speaking, in the SQL engine, the type 13 date would be cast to a type 12 date and used in an index probe, but the compiler is likely doing something similar to the DUMP conparision.
I believe that the type 13 dates are a representation of the C time_t struct that Oracle's kernel would likely use internally.
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Importing data error: SIGNEDDATA conversion error

The complete description is:
The number of failing rows exceeds the maximum specified. (Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS) Data Pump (8004202c): TransformCopy 'DTSTransformation__13' conversion error: General conversion failure on column pair 1 (source column 'SIGNEDDATA' (DBTYPE_STR), destination column 'SIGNEDDATA' (DBTYPE_NUMERIC)).)
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Edited by: Mariana Rodriguez on Mar 23, 2011 4:15 PM

Hi Mariana,
I've had the same kind of problem, which gave me the
General conversion failure on column pair 1 (source column 'SIGNEDDATA' (DBTYPE_STR), destination column 'SIGNEDDATA' (DBTYPE_NUMERIC)).)
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Program Enrollment Requirements > General > Plan
Method: Automatic
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I am using BO XI R3.1 version and webI rich client and trying to display the output of object scheduleenddate (9/1/2009 12:00:00 AM) as quarter in report. I need the output as Q1,Q2,Q3, Q4. The database am using is sqlserver 2005 and this field scheduleenddate is defined as datetime,null. I would like to change the definition of object in universe so that the output should come as Q1,Q2,Q3.
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