Group By Date Range – Examples

deviprasad — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:22:03 +0000

In many real time scenarios data is needed grouped by the date range for date (or) datetime columns.

This post explains in detail as to how to group data over date range in sql server.

Steps to group over different date ranges.

1. Identify the different date ranges

For example:

Data can be grouped by the below date ranges.(In YEAR-MONTH-DATE)

2011-01-01 TO 2011-05-31 Call it range 1

2011-01-01 TO 2011-12-31 Call it range 2

2012-01-01 TO 2012-05-31 Call it range 3

Other date ranges – Call it range 4

2. Build case statements for each date range
[sql]
CASE
WHEN DateTimeSold BETWEEN CAST (‘2011-01-01 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) AND CAST (‘2011-05-31 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) THEN 1
WHEN DateTimeSold BETWEEN CAST (‘2011-06-01 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) AND CAST (‘2011-12-31 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) THEN 2
WHEN DateTimeSold BETWEEN CAST (‘2012-01-01 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) AND CAST (‘2012-03-31 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) THEN 3
ELSE 4
END AS DateRange
[/sql]

3. Use the case statements in group by clause to group over different ranges.
[sql]
GROUP BY CASE
WHEN DateTimeSold BETWEEN CAST (‘2011-01-01 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) AND CAST (‘2011-05-31 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) THEN 1
WHEN DateTimeSold BETWEEN CAST (‘2011-06-01 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) AND CAST (‘2011-12-31 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) THEN 2
WHEN DateTimeSold BETWEEN CAST (‘2012-01-01 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) AND CAST (‘2012-03-31 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) THEN 3
ELSE 4
END
[/sql]

Below example (sample) query does the complete task in detail:
[sql]
CREATE TABLE #TestSales
(
CustomerName VARCHAR (100),
Product VARCHAR (100),
DateTimeSold DATETIME
)

GO
INSERT INTO #TestSales
SELECT ‘X’,
‘Product1’,
‘2011-05-01 00:00:00.000’
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘X’,
‘Product2’,
‘2011-06-01 00:00:00.000’
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘X’,
‘Product3’,
‘2011-06-01 00:00:00.000’
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘X’,
‘Product1’,
‘2012-01-01 00:00:00.000’
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘X’,
‘Product1’,
‘2012-02-01 00:00:00.000’
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘X’,
‘Product3’,
‘2012-02-01 00:00:00.000’
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘X’,
‘Product1’,
‘2012-03-01 00:00:00.000’
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘X’,
‘Product2’,
‘2012-03-01 00:00:00.000’
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘X’,
‘Product2’,
‘2012-03-01 00:00:00.000’
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘X’,
‘Product2’,
‘2012-04-01 00:00:00.000’

GO
SELECT count(*) AS NumberOfSales,
CASE
WHEN DateTimeSold BETWEEN CAST (‘2011-01-01 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) AND CAST (‘2011-05-31 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) THEN 1
WHEN DateTimeSold BETWEEN CAST (‘2011-06-01 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) AND CAST (‘2011-12-31 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) THEN 2
WHEN DateTimeSold BETWEEN CAST (‘2012-01-01 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) AND CAST (‘2012-03-31 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) THEN 3 ELSE 4
END AS DateRange
FROM #TestSales
GROUP BY CASE
WHEN DateTimeSold BETWEEN CAST (‘2011-01-01 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) AND CAST (‘2011-05-31 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) THEN 1
WHEN DateTimeSold BETWEEN CAST (‘2011-06-01 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) AND CAST (‘2011-12-31 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) THEN 2
WHEN DateTimeSold BETWEEN CAST (‘2012-01-01 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) AND CAST (‘2012-03-31 00:00:00.000’ AS DATETIME) THEN 3 ELSE 4
END
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