I'm trying to figure this out, but it's driving me insane! How do I calculate in SQL the number of days that are in a specific year between two dates? For example: we have the range date [12/30/2016-01/05/2017]. If I need to find how many days are in 2017 between this range of dates, it would be 5 days. How is that done in SQL?
CodePudding user response:
The practical answer to this is "it depends on the database vendor" e.g.
MySQL
SELECT DATEDIFF('2017-01-05','2016-12-30');
TSQL (MS SQL Server)
SELECT DATEDIFF ( day,'2016-12-30', '2017-01-05')
Postgres
SELECT '2017-01-05'::DATE - '2016-12-30'::DATE
Firebird and in Postgres there are alternatives to that also.
Oracle
SELECT (date '2017-01-05') - (date '2016-12-30') from dual
and in Oracle there are alternatives to that also.
Firebird
select datediff(day,cast('2016-12-30' as date),cast('2017-01-05' as date)) from rdb$database
CodePudding user response:
You didn't specify your dbms, but in general terms:
- Get the 1st day of the @EndDate year i.e. January 1, 2017
- Then calculate the days difference between @FirstOfYear and @EndDate
For example in MySQL, you could use MAKEDATE() to get the first of the year. Then DATEDIFF() to calculate the number of days
SET @StartDate = '2016-12-30';
SET @EndDate = '2017-01-05';
SELECT DateDiff(@endDate, MAKEDATE(Year(@endDate),1)) 1 AS DaysInEndDateYear
Result:
| DaysDiffValue| | ----------------: | | 5 |
If you also need to handle ranges where both @StartDate and @EndDate are in the same year:
SET @StartDate = '2017-01-05';
SET @EndDate = '2017-03-14';
SELECT CASE WHEN Year(@StartDate) = Year(@EndDate) THEN DateDiff(@EndDate, @StartDate) 1
ELSE DateDiff(@endDate, MAKEDATE(Year(@endDate),1)) 1
END AS DaysInEndDateYear
Results:
| DaysInEndDateYear | | ----------------: | | 69 |
db<>fiddle here