How to find entries for the particular month

Question

hi  all,
I have a table ZTOS4 where i store the trips, trips created timestamp.
in my selection screen , i give the month as parameter.
now i need to select the trips created for the select month. how can i put the select query???
select trips timestamp
from ztos4
where timestamp = month ??????? (as timestamp is date and time and month is 01,02,03,....12)
how to put the where condition?????
points will be rewarded
thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi jayasree muthaiyan,
USE LIKE keyword in where condition of your select query...
However its better to provide the month and year both form the selection screen because there can be many years data in the table which r having same month ...
eg .. 02 then it will give Feb months data for all years say 2004 2005 .... 2008 ...
Also..
Here is the "help" for the syntax of LIKE in SELECT statement.
f NOT LIKE g
Addition:
... ESCAPE h
Effect
The condition is met for a table entry if the statement "f (does not) equal the pattern in g" is true for the values of f and g. f must always be a field descriptor, and g an ABAP field. If f has the value NULL, then the result of the check for the statement is unknown. Within a pattern, there are two special characters:
'_' (underscore) stands for any single character.
'%' (percentage sign) stands for any sequence of characters, including an empty string.
Examples
Example to select all customers whose name begins with 'M':
TABLES SCUSTOM.
SELECT ID NAME FROM SCUSTOM
INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF SCUSTOM
WHERE NAME LIKE 'M%'.
WRITE: / SCUSTOM-ID, SCUSTOM-NAME.
ENDSELECT.
Example to select all customers whose name contains 'huber':
TABLES SCUSTOM.
SELECT ID NAME FROM SCUSTOM
INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF SCUSTOM
WHERE NAME LIKE '%huber%'.
WRITE: / SCUSTOM-ID, SCUSTOM-NAME.
ENDSELECT.
Example to select all customers whose name does not contain 'n' as the second character:
TABLES SCUSTOM.
SELECT ID NAME FROM SCUSTOM
INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF SCUSTOM
WHERE NAME NOT LIKE '_n%'.
WRITE: / SCUSTOM-ID, SCUSTOM-NAME.
ENDSELECT.
Notes
LIKE can only be used for alphanumeric database fields. In other words, table field f must have Dictionary type ACCP, CHAR, CLNT, CUKY, LCHR, NUMC, UNIT, VARC, TIMS or DATS. The comparison field g must always have type C.
The maximum length of the pattern is 2n - 1 characters, where n is the length of field f.
Trailing spaces are ignored in comparison field g. If a pattern contains trailing spaces, you must enclose it in single inverted commas ('). If your pattern is enclosed in inverted commas and you also want to include inverted commas as part of the pattern, the inverted commas in the pattern must be doubled.
You cannot use this variant in the ON addition to the FROM clause.
Hope it will solve your problem
Reward points if useful...
Thanks & Regards
ilesh 24x7