https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Health-and-Life-Sciences/retrieve-data-for-the-last-quarter/m-p/18878#M939 I would appreciate if anybody could give me logic to pull data for the last quarter from the database. right now to pull for 1 month I am using<BR /> sysdate(add_months('mmyyyy'-1) some thing on these lines. Tue, 20 May 2008 00:14:52 GMT deleted_user 2008-05-20T00:14:52Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Health-and-Life-Sciences/retrieve-data-for-the-last-quarter/m-p/18878#M939 I would appreciate if anybody could give me logic to pull data for the last quarter from the database. right now to pull for 1 month I am using<BR /> sysdate(add_months('mmyyyy'-1) some thing on these lines. Tue, 20 May 2008 00:14:52 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Health-and-Life-Sciences/retrieve-data-for-the-last-quarter/m-p/18878#M939 deleted_user 2008-05-20T00:14:52Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Health-and-Life-Sciences/retrieve-data-for-the-last-quarter/m-p/18879#M940 Explore using the SAS function INTNX for this type of date calculation, such as:<BR /> <BR /> ( INTNX('QTR',TODAY(),-1) LE your_date_var LE INTNX('QTR',TODAY(),-1,'E') )<BR /> <BR /> Scott Barry<BR /> SBBWorks, Inc. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:46:02 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Health-and-Life-Sciences/retrieve-data-for-the-last-quarter/m-p/18879#M940 sbb 2008-08-15T12:46:02Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Health-and-Life-Sciences/retrieve-data-for-the-last-quarter/m-p/18880#M941 If you have an index on your date var, be sure to pre calculate and store the result of the INTNX expressions in macro variables, otherwise you won't hit the index when using WHERE.<BR /> <BR /> Regards,<BR /> Linus Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:27:27 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Health-and-Life-Sciences/retrieve-data-for-the-last-quarter/m-p/18880#M941 LinusH 2008-08-20T12:27:27Z