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Day of the week test

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masterdineen
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550 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-01 : 12:40:31

I have a little script below to enter a record into a table, but depending what day of the week it is. I want to populate the last column eg mon, tues, wed etc.....

declare @day char(8)
set @day = 0
select case @day
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) IN (1) THEN @day = 'Sun'
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) IN (2) THEN @day = 'Mon'
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) IN (3) THEN @day = 'Tues'
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) IN (4) THEN @day = 'Wed'
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) IN (5) THEN @day = 'Thurs'
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) IN (6) THEN @day = 'Fri'
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) IN (7) THEN @day = 'Sat'
end

insert into priceing values ( '1', '50.00', '120', '17.5', '@day' )

when i run the script i receive the following error.

Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'IN'.

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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-01 : 12:42:54

it should be:-


declare @day char(8)
set @day = ''
select @day=case 
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) =1 THEN 'Sun'
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) =2 THEN  'Mon'
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) =3 THEN 'Tues'
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) =4 THEN 'Wed'
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) =5 THEN 'Thurs'
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) =6 THEN 'Fri'
WHEN DATEPART(dw, getdate()) =7 THEN 'Sat'
end

insert into priceing values ( '1', '50.00', '120', '17.5', @day)