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jgrant
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Posted - 2007-03-22 : 18:48:32

If I am running a scheduled job at the first of the month and I want to run an update sequence for the previous month, i was essentially using this sql:

@startdate = dateadd(mm, -1, getdate())
@enddate = dateadd(dd, -1, getdate())

So, will the @enddate represent the last day in the previous month or will that not work?

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khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2007-03-22 : 19:42:45

No. It will not work. Didn't you ever test it out at all ?


select @start_date 	= dateadd(month, datediff(month, 0, getdate()) -1, 0)
select @end_date	= dateadd(month, datediff(month, 0, getdate()), -1)

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