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Using TIMEFROMPARTS() – SQL Server 2012

SQL Server 2012 June 5, 2014 Leave a comment

This new function in SQL server 2012 helps in converting time parts to time. The syntax of this function is as follows

TIMEFROMPARTS ( hour, minute, seconds, fractions, precision )

The range of the parameters for TIMEFROMPARTS is as follows :
Hour -> 0-23.
Minutes -> 0-59.
Seconds -> 0-59.
Fractions -> 0-9999999.
Precision -> 0-7.

Let us understand this with an example.

DECLARE @hour INT, @min INT,@Sec INT,@frac INT;
SET @hour = 13
SET @min = 24
SET @Sec = 22
SET @frac = 45
SELECT TIMEFROMPARTS(@hour,@min,@Sec,@frac,2)

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This function requires a valid value for the Hour,Minute, Seconds, Fractions, Precision parameters. If any invalid value is passed then this function will return an error. If a Null value is passed on for the Precision parameter then it generates an error. For other parameters if a Null is passed then the output is also Null.

For example in the below code we pass an invalid value for the Hour parameter

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Now lets see what happens when we pass a Null value to the Fraction parameter

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If we fail to pass any one of the parameters then the following error message is returned.
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EOMONTH() – End of the month – SQL Server 2012

SQL Server 2012 December 25, 2013 Comments: 2

So how do we calculate the last date of the month which is 4 months from now?

SQL Server 2012 presents EOMONTH() function. Let us understand this function with an example.

DECLARE @MyDate datetime
SET @MyDate = GETDATE()
SELECT EOMONTH (@MyDate,4)
SELECT EOMONTH (@MyDate,-4)
as LastDayOfTheMonth

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So what do we find from the 2 outputs. Well it gives me the last date of the 4th month from the current month i.e. 4 months from now would be April and the last date of April is 30th. The second output gives the last date of 4 months previous i.e August. This function would be very handy in calculations where the last date of the month is a critical factor. Previously to achieve this we would have to do a bit of manipulation.

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