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This document provides examples of SQL code to retrieve the current period in different databases and formats. It also provides formulas for calculating other relative time periods like quarters, year-to-date, trailing twelve months, and month-over-month percentage change.

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Cognos RS - Functions - 19

This document provides examples of SQL code to retrieve the current period in different databases and formats. It also provides formulas for calculating other relative time periods like quarters, year-to-date, trailing twelve months, and month-over-month percentage change.

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For Microsoft SQLServer the calculation should look like this:

cast_integer(convert({varchar},[Returned items (query)].[Time dimension].[Date],112))

For Oracle:

to_number(To_Char([Returned items (query)].[Time dimension].[Date], 'YYYYMMDD'))

Useful links

Cognos Time and Date Functions from temple university

Find Current Period using closingPeriod Function

closingPeriod ([sales_and_marketing_cs].[Time].[Time].[Month])

Find Current Period by Filtering on Measure Data

item(tail(filter(members([sales_and_marketing].[Time].[Time].[Month]), tuple([Revenue],
currentMember([sales_and_marketing].[Time].[Time])) is not null), 1), 0)

Check link for detail explanation


http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/reporting/dimensional_queries/page561.html

Current Month/Quarter/YTD/ Trailing Twelve Months

Often use a “base” month current period to build everything else off of:
[Month Current] = closingPeriod( [goc].[Years].[Years].[Month] )

Quarter
parent( [Month Current] )

YTD
total( currentMeasure within set
periodsToDate( [goc].[Years].[Years].[Year], [Month Current] ) )

Trailing Twelve Months


total( currentMeasure within set
lastPeriods( 12, [Month Current] ) )

Month % Change Prior Year


( [Month Current] - [Month Prior Year] ) / [Month Prior Year]
Where [Month Prior Year] = lag( [Month Current] , 12 )

Note: currentMeasure is in the context of the crosstab


Period to date

[monthClosingPeriod] =
closingPeriod( [GOC].[Years].[Years].[Month] )

[periodsToDateForClosingPeriodMonth] =
PeriodsToDate( [GOC].[Years].[Years].[Year] , [monthClosingPeriod] )

Show real date from power cube

Cast date to string, want MM/DD/YYYY formatting (Read 3728


times)

Re: Cast date to string, want MM/DD/YYYY formatting

Have a column where the DOB was cast to a varchar. Want to hide certain birthdays so
XX/XX/XXXX shows under certain circumstances. When the cast to varchar was done it formatted
the date as 1994-02-03. I want the date formatted as MM/DD/YYYY. Is there a FORMAT
statement or such that can be done on the dates, or do I perform substrings to move the date
around?

I'd make the same suggestion I did for your other thread and use a conditional style rather than
changing the actual data type of the query item.
Yes, Lynn's suggestion on my other related thread worked like a charm. It was "how to format a
string as currency"

You can't substring a date.

Try these:
select cast(month(getdate()) as varchar(2)) + '/' + cast(day(getdate()) as varchar(2)) + '/' +
cast(year(getdate()) as varchar(4)) -- m/d/yyyy
select right('00' + cast(month(getdate()) as varchar(2)), 2) + '/' + right('00' +
cast(day(getdate()) as varchar(2)), 2) + '/' + right('0000' + cast(year(getdate()) as varchar(4)),
4) -- mm/dd/yyyy
select convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 101) -- mm/dd/yyyy

Replace the getdate() function with whatever your date expression is.

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