"Hennie de Nooijer" <hdenooijer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a problem (who not?) with a function which i'm using in a view.
> This function is a function which calculates a integer value of a
> date. For example: '12/31/2004 00:00:00" becomes 20041231. This is
> very handy in a datawarehouse and performes superfast. But here is my
> problem.
>
> My calendar table is limited by a couple of years. What happens is
> that sometimes a value is loaded which is not in the range of the
> Calendardate. What we want to do is when a date is loaded is that this
> function insert a minimum date when date < minimum date and a maximum
> date when date > maximum date.
>
> Yes i know you're thinking : This is datamanipulation and yes this is
> true. But now we loose information in our cubes and reports by inner
> joining. So if we can use a minimum and a maximum than a user would
> say: "This is strange, a lot of values on 1980/1/1!" instead of "I
> think that i have not all the data!"
>
> Greetz
>
> Hennie

On 30 Dec 2004 02:38:51 -0800, Hennie de Nooijer wrote:

>I have a problem (who not?) with a function which i'm using in a view.
>This function is a function which calculates a integer value of a
>date. For example: '12/31/2004 00:00:00" becomes 20041231. This is
>very handy in a datawarehouse and performes superfast. But here is my
>problem.