returning last date of previous month

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returning last date of previous month

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dmills99
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7 Posts

Posted - 2011-01-06 : 09:47:01

right now i have code:

RETURN DateAdd(second, -1, dbo.DateSerial((YEAR(@indate) + case when MONTH(@indate) IN (1,2) then 0 else -1 end), 3, 1))

if you run this on 1/6/2011 it returns 2/28/2011 which is a date in the future, but the end of a fiscal year for one of our reports...

how can i change this so that if I run it on 1/6/2011 it always goes back and finds the end of the previous month : ie: 12/31/2010

thanks in advance for any response

nigelrivett
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3385 Posts

Posted - 2011-01-06 : 10:05:50

select dateadd(dd,-1*datepart(dd,getdate()),dateadd(dd,datediff(dd,0,GETDATE()),0))

or
convert(datetime,convert(varchar(6),getdate(),112)+'01')-1

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jimf
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Posted - 2011-01-06 : 10:10:01

select dateadd(month,datediff(month,0,'20110106'),-1)

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madhivanan
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22864 Posts

Posted - 2011-01-12 : 04:37:40

If time doesn't matter

select getdate()-day(getdate())

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dmills99
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7 Posts

Posted - 2011-01-19 : 15:56:59

thanks for all your help...

SwePeso
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30421 Posts

Posted - 2011-01-19 : 16:47:06

Keep it simple

SELECT	DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, GETDATE()), -1)

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