Date calculation not working in Oracle SQL Case Statement? - sql

Question

I am attempting to change the start of the week of a data set from Monday to the previous Friday. The overall data will be aggregated to a week level to look like this.
Week 1
Friday,
Saturday,
Sunday,
Monday,
Tuesday,
Wednesday,
Thursday
The best I have come up with to do this is a case statement which sets Friday, Saturday and Sunday to next week's First day of the week (the system first day is Monday and last day is Sunday).
SELECT TRANSACTIONDATE,
CASE
WHEN TO_CHAR(TRANSACTIONDATE, 'DAY') IN ('FRIDAY', 'SATURDAY',
'SUNDAY') THEN (TRUNC(TRANSACTIONDATE, 'IW')+7)
ELSE TRUNC(TRANSACTIONDATE, 'IW')
END AS TEST
FROM TRANSACTIONS
My logic for this code is: if Fri, Sat or Sun then find the first day of the week and add 7 returning next week's first day of the week.
The problem is that the statement "TRUNC(TRANSACTIONDATE, 'IW')+7" is not adding 7 days to the week start.
When I query
select "TRUNC(TRANSACTIONDATE, 'IW')+7" from transactions
I get the next weeks week start which is correct.
This way all the days from Friday to Thursday are under the same week number.
Any ideas what's going wrong or if theres a better way to accomplish what I'm after?
Thanks,
Tom
Edit**
The first data set is what I would like at achieve,
Date Day Week
4/1/2018 Monday 1
4/2/2018 Tuesday 1
4/3/2018 Wednesday 1
4/4/2018 Thursday 1
4/5/2018 Friday 2
4/6/2018 Saturday 2
4/7/2018 Sunday 2
4/8/2018 Monday 2
4/9/2018 Tuesday 2
4/10/2018 Wednesday 2
4/11/2018 Thursday 2
So above you can see I want Firday/Saturday/Sunday to fall into the next week.
This is the current system dates/weeks does,
Date Day Week
4/1/2018 Monday 1
4/2/2018 Tuesday 1
4/3/2018 Wednesday 1
4/4/2018 Thursday 1
4/5/2018 Friday 1
4/6/2018 Saturday 1
4/7/2018 Sunday 1
4/8/2018 Monday 2
4/9/2018 Tuesday 2

Answer 1

The problem is TO_CHAR(TRANSACTIONDATE, 'DAY')
When you use 'DAY' then the weekday name is padded with space characters. Try SELECT '<'||TO_CHAR(DATE '2018-05-07', 'DAY')||'>' from dual; to see the effect.
Function TO_CHAR(..., 'DAY') returns the weekday name according to current user session NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE settings. This might be english or not.
Change your expression for example to
TO_CHAR(TRANSACTIONDATE, 'fmDAY', 'NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE=american') IN ('FRIDAY', 'SATURDAY', 'SUNDAY')