Michael,
Someone on the list recently dave this quickie formula for computing the
no. of biz days::
DATEDIFF(date2, date1) - (WEEK(date2) - WEEK(date1)) * 2
PB
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Stembridge, Michael wrote:
>A table exists with id and datetime columns; I need to SELECT records from
>the previous business day. I began with this:
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>SELECT id FROM table WHERE TO_DAYS(NOW()) - TO_DAYS(datetime) <=1
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>But if NOW() is a Monday, it pulls records from Sunday (there are none since
>records are inserted M-F only). I thought of using something like this in
>my WHERE clause:
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>"AND DAYOFWEEK(datetime) != 6"
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>Though this doesn't seem like an operable solution (If I'm not mistaken this
>would return 0 rows if no records were inserted on a Sunday).
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>Does MySQL include a specifier for business day?
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>Thank you,
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>Michael
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