Selecting the Closest date only.

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Selecting the Closest date only.

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boab88
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2 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-21 : 09:05:03

Hey.

I'm looking for some help with an SQL statement to return only the record with the closest date to the current date.

I have a table called fixtures with a column date. The date column is a datetime field in sql server.

Currently Im using this statement:
SELECT *
FROM Fixtures
where (some requirements) and date <GETDATE()

This returns all the dates in the past (and i can change it to the furture with just >)but it can return multiple rows. How do I specifically only get the single closest row?

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-21 : 09:09:49

SELECT TOP 1 *
FROM Fixtures
WHERE (some requirements) AND Date < GETDATE()
ORDER BY Date DESC

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madhivanan
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22864 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-21 : 09:11:31

Try this

SELECT *
FROM Fixtures
where (some requirements) and date =(select max(date) from Fixtures where date<=GETDATE())

Madhivanan

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nr
SQLTeam MVY

12543 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-21 : 09:29:02

He wants the closest date rather than the last eaarlier.

select *
from Fixtures
where date = (select top 1 date from Fixtures order by abs(convert(float,getdate() - date)))

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