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SSRS – Format() and FormateDateTime()

Posted by on April 15, 2009 Comments Off on SSRS – Format() and FormateDateTime()

Found this reference … JUST IN TIME!

Thanks Thavash This is by far my most visited page.

http://thavash.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!CF6232111374DFD2!155.entry

April 10

Working with Dates in Reporting Services

As with any other technology ( eg. SQL , C# ), you always find people running into problems with processing of dates. I was asked today , “How to I format dates when using the Date Picker and sending it through to a stored procedure” ? Let’s have a look ….
1) The FormatDateTime command
This is pretty easy to use, but maybe a bit limiting. You can specify 1 of 4 formats using the command arguments. Let’s say we have selected a date such as 10th April 2007 , our results will be as follows :
Command Result
FormatDateTime(Parameters!Date.Value,1) Tuesday, April 10, 2007
FormatDateTime(Parameters!Date.Value,2) 4/10/2007
FormatDateTime(Parameters!Date.Value,3) 12:00:00 AM
FormatDateTime(Parameters!Date.Value,4) 00:00

…but the better way to do it would be to use …

2) The Format command and specify the exact format you require. For example…

Command Result
Format(Parameters!Date.Value,”dd-MM-yyyy”) 10-04-2007
Format(Parameters!Date.Value,”dd/MM/yyyy”) 10/04/2007
Format(Parameters!Date.Value,”MMM-dd-yyyy”) Apr-10-2007
Format(Parameters!Date.Value,”MMM-dd-yy”) Apr-10-07

So 3 M’s give you “Apr” ….anyway this is quite useful if you’re looking for Day/Month/Year , since the system will default to MM/DD/YYYY.

Using this you should be able to display the date format you want , or send through a particular format to a Stored Proc.

EDITED 22/08/2007 : If the Format Command doesn’t work , try converting the value to a date , eg.

Format(Cdate(Parameters!Date.Value),”dd-MM-yyyy”)

Group By and Case Statements or Other SQL Functions

Posted by on February 28, 2008 Comments Off on Group By and Case Statements or Other SQL Functions

One thing I forget to do often is to include the actual item I’m returning in the Select Statement in the Group By. Meaning , if I use a case statement of some function to change the value that I’m returning, then I should include that and not the base column name in the Group By part of the select statement


/*
If you write something like this and the Col2 has multiple 'Unique' Values
then you will get a row for each value distinct Col2 value that says 'Other'
*/SELECT [Col1]
,Case When [Col2] = 10 then 'Ten'
Else 'Other' End as [LameExample]
,Count(*) as CNT
FROM [dbo].[lameTableExample]
GROUP BY [Col1], [Col2]

-- This Example will return Only two rows

SELECT [Col1]
,Case When [Col2] = 10 then 'Ten'
Else 'Other' End as [LameExample]
,Count(*) as CNT
FROM [dbo].[lameTableExample]
GROUP BY [Col1]
, Case When [Col2] = 10 then 'Ten'
Else 'Other' End

Select Case has a simple overview of using CASE in a SQL Query with the SUM() function.

For Each … SQL System Stored Procedures

Posted by on February 25, 2008 Comments Off on For Each … SQL System Stored Procedures

Sql server has some great built-in commands procs that can help you script server or database wide commands. sp_MSForEachTable and Sp_MSForEachDb

When first looking at a database , I sometimes like to run the following:
execute sp_MSforEachTable @command1=‘Print ”?”; Select Count(*) as [? – (count)] from ?;Select Top 10 * from ? ‘

I used the sp_MSforeachDB just the other day to set all the non-system
databases on a test server to Simple Recovery mode.Just made a quick stored procedure that I passed the ? value and filter out the system databases ( Master, Model, Tempdb and MSDB).

For More Information Checkout :

November 30, 2004
SQL Server Undocumented Stored Procedures sp_MSforeachtable and sp_MSforeachdb
By Gregory A. Larsen
http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3441031