Good day. What seemed like a small issue has me SO stuck. I have the following SQL:

SELECT DATENAME(MONTH,osirSignalDateTime) AS Expr1, COUNT(distinct osirReport.osirId) AS Numincidents, MONTH(osirSignalDateTime),YEAR(osirSignalDateTime) FROM ((((((((((((( osirReport.......

NOTE - Many tables joined here due to the query being feed from a bar chart wizard in one of my apps.

The sql output is as follows:

August 3 8 2007
September 1 9 2007
October 1 10 2007
November 4 11 2007
February 10 2 2008
March 3 3 2008
April 5 4 2008
May 4 5 2008
June 7 6 2008
July 7 7 2008
August 5 8 2008

FYI - The record set gets used in the following loop to feed the chart object:

   if not values.eof then
      do until values.eof
         Chart.AddGroupedData left(uCase(values(0)),3) & " " & right(values(3),2), "All Incidents", values(1), "FFFF00"
         values.moveNext
      loop
   end if

The Chart:
The user has asked for a chart which has months on the X-axis (first record in query). Each bar indicates numberOfIncidents (second record in query).

My Issue:
A date range of August 07 to August 08 was asked for however there were no incidents in the months of December 07 and January 08 (as you can see in the output above). How can I make the record set include these months indicating a 0 for the number of incidents?? A bar with 0 is required on the graph for any month within the date range that has no incidents.

My objective is to have these two records included in the above record set:

December 0 12 2007
January 0 1 2008

I thought the ISNULL function should do this. EG:

SELECT DATENAME(MONTH,osirSignalDateTime) AS Expr1, isNull(COUNT(distinct osirReport.osirId),0) AS Numincidents, MONTH(osirSignalDateTime),YEAR(osirSignalDateTime) FROM....

This makes no difference to the output. Should I be looking to solve this while looping through the query instead of tring to tweak the SQL??

TYIA



Wind is your friend
Matt
www.elitemarquees.com.au

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Wind is your friend
Matt

I would much prefer to tweak the SQL rather than doing it while loopinf through the record set!! This is a stacked bar chart so the code below would have to be repeated three times...messy....

Anyhow this is what I was geting at when talking about solving it outside of the SQL. it works however far from a sooth solution:

NOTE - I have hard coded the start and finish dates for testing

    dim startMNum,finishMNum,startYear,finishYear,fromVar, tovar,runningVar,numMonths
    dim count
    numMonths = 0
    startMNum = month("01/08/2007")
    finishMNum = month("31/08/2008")
    startYear = year("01/08/2007")
    finishYear = year("31/08/2008")
    fromVar = startYear * 100 + startMnum
    toVar = finishYear * 100 + finishMnum
    runningVar = fromvar
    do while runningVar <= toVar
       numMonths = numMonths + 1
       if runningVar = startYear * 100 + 12 then
          runningVar = (startYear + 1) *100 +1
       else
          runningVar = runningVar + 1
       end if
    loop

    dim runningMonth,runningYear
    runningMonth = startMNum
    runningYear = startYear
    count = 0


        for count = 1 to numMonths
        if not values.Eof then
           if values(2) = runningMonth AND values(3) = runningYear then
              Chart.AddGroupedData left(uCase(values(0)),3) & " " & right(values(3),2), "All Incidents",values(1) , "FFFF00"
              values.moveNext
           else
              Chart.AddGroupedData left(uCase(monthName(runningMonth,false)),3) & " " & right(runningYear,2), "All Incidents", 0 , "FFFF00"
           end if
        end if
        if runningMonth = 12 then
           runningMonth = 1
           runningYear = runningYear + 1
        else
           runningMonth = runningMonth + 1
        end if
     next

Wind is your friend
Matt
www.elitemarquees.com.au

The easy way to do this is to create an ALLMONTHS table in your DB.

That table has just one field: monthStart (with a type of DATETIME, of course)

And that table looks something like this:
And now you simply LEFT JOIN from that table to your existing query:
Presto. You are done.

What DB is this???

Why aren't you doing this (or the equivalent) in the SQL:
    left(uCase(values(0)),3) & " " & right(values(3),2)
???

Here's a simpler form of the VBS solution:

Ah I see this months table would ensure null values are returned for the months missing incidents. EG:

isNull(COUNT(distinct osirReport.osirId),0) AS Numincidents

;;;What DB is this???
SQL Server

;;;Why aren't you doing this (or the equivalent) in the SQL
The output illustrated above:
August 3 8 2007
September 1 9 2007
is requird for other reasons on the page therefore I manupulate the RS values accordingly.

Thank you very much for your time. I think I will try your first option. Have a good day :o)

Wind is your friend
Matt
www.elitemarquees.com.au

Since you are using SQL Server, I'd be tempted to take your existing query and turn it into a VIEW.

Then you can just LEFT JOIN from the allmonths table to that VIEW.

The reason I recommend that is because you can't use any field from a table where records might not exist in the WHERE clause (it nullifies the OUTER join and turns it into an INNER join).

I will say that for this particular case, where you only need a max of 13 records, I don't think the VBS solution is all that bad.

Now, if you were doing a calendar...