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Rayman
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39 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-09 : 16:59:27

I read the earlier post to see if someone had address this topic.
I have a column with the following data:

birth_date
4/23/1945
8/20/1962
3/27/1962
2/11/1958
3/21/1951
11/18/1951
8/15/1983
2/22/1971
1/24/1931
11/14/1944
12/15/1949
10/15/1965
9/25/1967
I need to read this and produce the following information:

day_born/age
Monday / 41.7
Wednsday/ 58.2
Saturday/ 78.4
Tuesday / 51.3
Sunday / 57.6
Thursday/ 59.5
Monday / 64.1
Friday / 43.6
Tuesday / 64.6
I placed the forward slash in the represent the space between the data and column.
But I need to calculate the date and extract the day of the week and the years

Terry Lynn King

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-09 : 17:15:35

Search the forums and Internet for various age functions. There are many. To figure out day_born, use DATENAME function with birth_date.

Tara Kizer
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Rayman
Starting Member

39 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-10 : 12:36:19

SELECT person_name, birth_city,
dayname(birth_date) as day_born,
truncate(datediff(current_date,birth_date)/ 365,1) as age,
operations
FROM `john`
ORDER by person_name

The query is hanging on the dayname function. Is there a better way to do this? I reviewed the Microsoft SQL server transact-SQL and utilities reference, Vol 2. I am just missing a simple syntax issue.
The error states dayname not a recognize function. I change to Day and get the same thing.

Terry Lynn King

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-10 : 12:38:54

This doesn't look like Microsoft SQL Server. What dbms are you using?

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Rayman
Starting Member

39 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-10 : 13:00:01

Microsoft SQL 2005 on Windows 2003 server.

Terry Lynn King

TimSman
Posting Yak Master

127 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-10 : 13:05:28

There is no DayName function. Unless you wrote it.

And why do you have TRUNCATE in there? I would get rid of that, too.

madhivanan
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22864 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-11 : 04:58:30

TRUNCATE is an ORACLE function. Also there is no reason to use it on the numbers as datediff will return integers

Madhivanan

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