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Determine first day of the quarter [message #18642]

Fri, 08 February 2002 05:57

mary
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Registered: November 1999

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I would like to know how to write a sql statement which can be embedded in pl/sql package to determine the first day of the quarter. eg I want to do some maintenace but I would like to do it every three months. So I need to determine if the begining of the new quarter to do the maintenance... thanks in advance

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Re: Determine first day of the quarter [message #18644 is a reply to message #18642]

Fri, 08 February 2002 06:26

Jon
Messages: 483
Registered: May 2001

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There are probably more elegant ways of doing it, but if the following returns 'Yes', it is the first day of the quarter:

select decode(trunc(sysdate)-trunc(last_day(sysdate-1)),1,'Yes','No') FirstDayOfQtr
from dual
where to_char(sysdate,'MM') in ('04','07','10','01')

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Re: Determine first day of the quarter [message #18651 is a reply to message #18642]

Fri, 08 February 2002 12:24

Todd Barry
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Registered: August 2001

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How about:

if sysdate = trunc(sysdate, 'q') then
  -- do something
end if;

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Re: Determine first day of the quarter [message #18687 is a reply to message #18642]

Mon, 11 February 2002 03:51

Jon
Messages: 483
Registered: May 2001

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You win in my book. Very elegant.

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