how will i classify the dates according to its quarter. lets say
10-02-03 (october 2, 2003) is it under 1st quarter, 2nd quarter, 3r
quarter,4th quarter of the year? what date function should i use? o
what do i have to do? pls help me with this. than

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Assuming the date is in variable myDate

month(myDate) mod 4 +1

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"malay_ko " wrote in message
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how will i classify the dates according to its quarter. lets say,
10-02-03 (october 2, 2003) is it under 1st quarter, 2nd quarter, 3rd
quarter,4th quarter of the year? what date function should i use? or
what do i have to do? pls help me with this. thanx


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Try datediff

4-datediff("Q",firstdate,lastdayofyear

e.g

4-datediff("Q","01/09/2004","31/12/2004"

You may need to contruct lastdayofyear using "31/12/" & datepart("yyyy",firstdate