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joblenis
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Posted - 2007-06-05 : 11:43:32

I tried looking for assistance but I cant get my formatting to work. I was pretty sure yyyy=2007 and yy=07 but its not working right.

What I am doing is using Business Intelligence to read the previous days IIS logs. The logs are labeled as ex070602.log (exyymmdd.log) The code I use to get the previous day is dateadd("d",-1,getdate())

now I want to format the yy/mm/dd but I am getting single digits for the month and day and 4 digits for the year. Can someone tell me the expression I would need to use for this. Thank you kindly guys.

Some things I tried and results I got:

datepart("yy",dateadd("dd",-1,getdate())) = 2007
year(dateadd("dd",-1,getdate())) = 2007

day(dateadd("dd",-1,getdate())) = 4
month(dateadd("dd",-1,getdate())) = 6

Thanks. I appreciate the assistance.

DonAtWork
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Posted - 2007-06-05 : 12:00:26

try this


select convert(char(8),getdate(),11)

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joblenis
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Posted - 2007-06-05 : 12:43:25

that works in sql but wont work in my business intelligence expression builder. It does not like the char function. Any other ideas?

DonAtWork
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Posted - 2007-06-05 : 13:00:37

Hmm. Try a google search for "Business Intelligence" i suppose. This is a Microsoft SQL Server forum.

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madhivanan
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Posted - 2007-06-06 : 09:56:25

Try

right(datepart("yy",dateadd("dd",-1,getdate())),2)+"/"+month(dateadd("dd",-1,getdate()))+"/"+day(dateadd("dd",-1,getdate()))

or search at
http://support.businessobjects.com/

Madhivanan

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