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Message Posted: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 @ 08:49:29 GMT
| Subj: | | Re: add_months for integer-type dates |
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| From: | | Geoffrey Rommel |
| | We're often dealing with monthly data. That's why our DWH architect decided to define dates as integer of the format YYYYMM. | |
If you're planning to write a UDF, you can easily split the integer into year (date_code / 100) and month (date_code % 100) portions. Then you
can compute a sequential month number (e.g. Jan of year 0 = 1, Jan. 2000 = 24001, etc.), add or subtract as needed, and convert it back to the
coded form.
Come to think of it, using a sequential month number would probably have been a better choice to begin with, but it's probably too late to
change that now.
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