Compare Date fields and Display

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September 29th, 2005, 02:20 AM

Suhan

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Compare Date fields and Display

Hi Frnds,

It will of great gesture if anyone can help me out.

Take two dates(date1, date 2) as an input,
compare them
Get the number of days between the two dates.
If Date 1> Date 2 display Date 1
If Date 1=Date 2 display Date1 and Date2
If Date 1< Date 2 display Date 2.

Cheers!!!
Suhan

September 29th, 2005, 07:58 AM

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Is this SQL, or a stored procedure?

September 29th, 2005, 11:19 AM

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Try this:

Code:

SELECT
 DATEDIFF(dd,date1,date2) AS days_no
,CASE
  WHEN date1 > date2 THEN date1
  WHEN date1 = date2 THEN CONCATENATE(date1 || date2)
  WHEN date1 < date2 THEN date2
 END AS display_date
FROM
 table

Syntax for DATEDIFF and CONCATENATE may vary slightly depending on your exact brand, but you should be able to use something close to the above.

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