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recent date [message #347447]

Thu, 11 September 2008 12:19

kimber
Messages: 10
Registered: August 2008
Location: USA

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Hi all
In a report that i created in the disco plus, i have the following fields:

CONTRACT_NUMBER FIRM_TYPE EST_FEE SELECTION_DATE
00010               P     $10,000   7/7/2008
00010               P     $10,000    7/21/2008

What should i do to get just the recent date i.e 7/21/2008 in the above example.

Any help is greately appreciated.

Thanks

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Re: recent date [message #347452 is a reply to message #347447]

Thu, 11 September 2008 12:32

Littlefoot
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Registered: June 2005
Location: Croatia, Europe

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I don't speak Discoverer, but - if it can help - use it.

In SQL*Plus, you'd use the MAX function as

SELECT contract_number, firm_type, est_fee, selection_date
FROM some_table
WHERE selection_date = (SELECT MAX(selection_date)
                        FROM some_table
                       )

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Re: recent date [message #347473 is a reply to message #347447]

Thu, 11 September 2008 17:25

Viffer06
Messages: 3
Registered: July 2008
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Junior Member

kimber wrote on Thu, 11 September 2008 12:19

Hi all
In a report that i created in the disco plus, i have the following fields:

CONTRACT_NUMBER FIRM_TYPE EST_FEE SELECTION_DATE
00010               P     $10,000   7/7/2008
00010               P     $10,000    7/21/2008

What should i do to get just the recent date i.e 7/21/2008 in the above example.

Any help is greately appreciated.

Thanks

Set a date condition for SELECTION_DATE.

Under Condition: Select column Selection_date.

It should look like this:

Selection_date = to_date('7/21/2008,'MM/DD/YYYY')

That should work. If it doesn't, you'll need to do this trunc(selection_date) = to_date('7/21/2008,'MM/DD/YYYY').

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Re: recent date [message #347513 is a reply to message #347473]

Fri, 12 September 2008 00:08

Littlefoot
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Registered: June 2005
Location: Croatia, Europe

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OK, if that's the principle. But it means that the user has to KNOW the most recent date and, somehow, I believe that this should not be left to the user but selected programatically. Once again, I have no idea how it is supposed to be done in Discoverer, but I'm quite certain that there *must* be some way, different from the hard-coded date value.

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Re: recent date [message #348613 is a reply to message #347513]

Wed, 17 September 2008 07:30

aarti81
Messages: 235
Registered: December 2007
Location: USA

Senior Member

Thank you all very much, i did like what you guys said and then in disco plus i used a condition . Thank you all again

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