For Microsoft SQLServer the calculation should look like this:
cast_integer(convert({varchar},[Returned items (query)].[Time dimension].[Date],112))
For Oracle:
to_number(To_Char([Returned items (query)].[Time dimension].[Date], 'YYYYMMDD'))
Useful links
Cognos Time and Date Functions from temple university
Find Current Period using closingPeriod Function
closingPeriod ([sales_and_marketing_cs].[Time].[Time].[Month])
Find Current Period by Filtering on Measure Data
item(tail(filter(members([sales_and_marketing].[Time].[Time].[Month]), tuple([Revenue],
currentMember([sales_and_marketing].[Time].[Time])) is not null), 1), 0)
Check link for detail explanation
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/reporting/dimensional_queries/page561.html
Current Month/Quarter/YTD/ Trailing Twelve Months
Often use a “base” month current period to build everything else off of:
[Month Current] = closingPeriod( [goc].[Years].[Years].[Month] )
Quarter
parent( [Month Current] )
YTD
total( currentMeasure within set
periodsToDate( [goc].[Years].[Years].[Year], [Month Current] ) )
Trailing Twelve Months
total( currentMeasure within set
lastPeriods( 12, [Month Current] ) )
Month % Change Prior Year
( [Month Current] - [Month Prior Year] ) / [Month Prior Year]
Where [Month Prior Year] = lag( [Month Current] , 12 )
Note: currentMeasure is in the context of the crosstab
Period to date
[monthClosingPeriod] =
closingPeriod( [GOC].[Years].[Years].[Month] )
[periodsToDateForClosingPeriodMonth] =
PeriodsToDate( [GOC].[Years].[Years].[Year] , [monthClosingPeriod] )
Show real date from power cube
Cast date to string, want MM/DD/YYYY formatting (Read 3728
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Re: Cast date to string, want MM/DD/YYYY formatting
Have a column where the DOB was cast to a varchar. Want to hide certain birthdays so
XX/XX/XXXX shows under certain circumstances. When the cast to varchar was done it formatted
the date as 1994-02-03. I want the date formatted as MM/DD/YYYY. Is there a FORMAT
statement or such that can be done on the dates, or do I perform substrings to move the date
around?
I'd make the same suggestion I did for your other thread and use a conditional style rather than
changing the actual data type of the query item.
Yes, Lynn's suggestion on my other related thread worked like a charm. It was "how to format a
string as currency"
You can't substring a date.
Try these:
select cast(month(getdate()) as varchar(2)) + '/' + cast(day(getdate()) as varchar(2)) + '/' +
cast(year(getdate()) as varchar(4)) -- m/d/yyyy
select right('00' + cast(month(getdate()) as varchar(2)), 2) + '/' + right('00' +
cast(day(getdate()) as varchar(2)), 2) + '/' + right('0000' + cast(year(getdate()) as varchar(4)),
4) -- mm/dd/yyyy
select convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 101) -- mm/dd/yyyy
Replace the getdate() function with whatever your date expression is.
