Generating data for populating Date Dimension table using familiar Microsoft Excel
Generating Date Dimension data in Microsoft Excel
Oracle SQL script to generate Date Dimension data for use in Microsoft Excel Data Models
Date dimension is that one dimension or business perspective without which an Excel Data Model cannot ever exist. Here is an Oracle SQL script to generate the data for a Date Dimension. All that you have to do is change the start date and end date values in the in the last line of the... Continue Reading →
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Truncating time part from date & time data in Excel
Did you ever come across a situation where you had to compare two dates ignoring their time part to arrive at a status indicator ? Let’s see an example and the trick to address it: Example Scenario: Here you have some order ids and their respective order dates, target dates and delivery dates as in... Continue Reading →
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Truncate time part from Datetime column or literal in Oracle SQL
I have shown how to truncate the time part from a datetime column value in SQL Server T-SQL in one of my previous posts here - http://pivotronics.com/2012/12/19/comparing-datetime-column-with-a-date-literal-in-t-sql/ Here is the same (how to truncate the time part from a datetime column value) in Oracle SQL: TRUNC(datetime_column) or TRUNC(datetime_expression) very straight forward...!! isn't it.. ? 🙂
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Comparing datetime column with a date literal in T-SQL
Hi Friends.. I have seen that comparing a datetime column in a table in SQL Server database, that has both date and time parts (e.g. 2012-12-05 10:37:36.897) with a date literal that has only date part is a not straight forward. Let me explain with an example: Have created a temporary table with two date... Continue Reading →
