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uneek78
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Posted - 12/18/2012 :  13:31:48  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have the following:

SELECT ExplorerSnapshot.SignerLastName, ExplorerSnapshot.SignerFirstName,
ExplorerSnapshot.DictatorLastName, ExplorerSnapshot.DictatorFirstName,
"dbo"."Order".CreateDate, "dbo"."Order".CompleteDate,
Report.BeginEditDate, Report.LastPrelimDate,
Report.LastSignDate, Report.IsAddendum

FROM "dbo"."Order", ExplorerSnapshot, Report

WHERE Report.ReportID = "dbo"."Order".ReportID
AND ExplorerSnapshot.ReportID = "dbo"."Order".ReportID
AND ExplorerSnapshot.OrderDate BETWEEN '12/15/2012' and '12/18/2012'
;

My goal is to have:

Report.LastSignDate subtract from Report.LastPrelimDate and give minutes

Report.LastPrelimDate subtract from Report.BeginEditDate and give minutes

Report.BeginEditDate subtract from "dbo"."Order".CompleteDate and give minutes

"dbo"."Order".CompleteDate subtract from "dbo"."Order".CreateDate and give minutes


Is that possible?

sunitabeck
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Posted - 12/18/2012 :  13:49:07  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You can add columns such as shown below:
....
Report.BeginEditDate, Report.LastPrelimDate,
Report.LastSignDate, Report.IsAddendum,
DATEDIFF(minute, Report.LastPrelimDate, Report.LastSignDate),
DATEDIFF(minute, Report.LastPrelimDate, Report.BeginEditDate)

FROM "dbo"."Order", ExplorerSnapshot, Report
...
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uneek78
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Posted - 12/18/2012 :  16:28:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
THANK YOU!!!!! You're a genius and it worked!!!! Of all the hours of googling and I got nothing that worked. Yours worked! THANKS!!!!
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uneek78
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Posted - 12/18/2012 :  16:29:57  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Soooooooooooooooooo(lol) how could I give each of those columns a specific name?
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Bustaz Kool
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USA
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Posted - 12/18/2012 :  19:51:57  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Give each one an alias:
DATEDIFF(minute, Report.LastPrelimDate, Report.LastSignDate) as MinutesToSign,
DATEDIFF(minute, Report.LastPrelimDate, Report.BeginEditDate) as MinutesTostart



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Edited by - Bustaz Kool on 12/18/2012 19:52:49
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uneek78
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Posted - 12/19/2012 :  09:48:25  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Aaaaaah..........much appreciated my friend.
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visakh16
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Posted - 12/19/2012 :  09:55:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by uneek78

Aaaaaah..........much appreciated my friend.


see this to understand how date operations are done in t-sql

http://visakhm.blogspot.in/2012/07/generate-datetime-values-from-integers.html

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