How to calculate SQL dates based on pilot's birthday as well as current date - sql

Question

So, pilots have to get so many flight hours and flight sorties within every 6 months (semi annual) as well as every year (annual). The biggest pain is that the start and ending dates of these periods are based upon their birth month.
You can find more information about my schema here: Design decision: Table schema for partial dates in order to calculate time spans (SQL Server)
DECLARE #date Date
SET #date = '1985-04-12'
DECLARE #diffInYears INT
SET #diffInYears = DATEDIFF(yy, #date, GETDATE())
DECLARE #currentBirthDate Date
SET #currentBirthDate = (SELECT dateadd(yyyy, #diffInYears, #date))
SELECT DATEADD(dd, -DAY(DATEADD(m,1,#currentBirthDate)), DATEADD(m,7,#currentBirthDate)) semiAnnualDateEnd,
DATEADD(dd, -DAY(DATEADD(m,1,#currentBirthDate)), DATEADD(m,13,#currentBirthDate)) annualDateEnd
RESULTS:
semiAnnualDateEnd - annualDateEnd
2012-10-31 - 2013-04-30
Now, this is great, these are the dates I want for this particular example.
However, when we come to November 1st, 2012, I want the semiAnnualDateEnd to become 2013-04-30.
Also, when 2013 comes around (January 1st, 2013), the annualDateEnd is going to become 2014-04-30, when I want it to stay 2013-04-30 until 2013-05-01 comes around, and then for it to become 2014-04-30 (similar situation for the semiAnnual).
I don't want to keep these dates statically associated with a particular pilot. That is, I don't want to keep a couple fields in the Pilot table that have these. However, I want to use these for displaying and calculations. For example, going to need to display each pilot's current semiAnnual and annual sorties and flight hours, as well as displaying a snapshot their "current" stats at any particular point in time.
EDIT: I'm using SQL Server 2008 Express RC
EDIT 2: I'm thinking I should change the #currentBirthDate to (SELECT DATEADD(yyyy, #diffInYears - 1, #date). Then, I need to do a case statement below (continuing experimentation)

Answer 1

The rule for the semi-annual date seems to be: add five months to the month and go to the end of the month. End of the month can be a problem. So, let's change this to "add six months, got to the end of the month and subtract one day". (I am basing this logic on your example.)
The following expression does this:
select dateadd(d, -1,
cast(cast(year(bd)+(case when month(bd)+6 > 12 then 1 else 0 end) as varchar(255))+'-'+
cast(case when month(bd)+7> 12 then month(bd)+6-12 else month(bd) end as varchar(255))+'-'+
'1' as date))
from (select cast('2011-11-01' as date) bd) t
It does the date arithmetic on the year() and month() values of the date. It then gloms them back together as a string, converts to a date, and subtracts 1 day.
I think something similar will work for your year dates as well.

Answer 2

DECLARE #pilotID INT
SET #pilotID = 1
DECLARE #birthDate DATE
SET #birthDate = (SELECT birthDate FROM Pilot WHERE pilotID = #pilotID)
DECLARE #diffInYears INT
SET #diffInYears = DATEDIFF(yy, #birthDate, GETDATE())
DECLARE #currentBirthDate DATE
SET #currentBirthDate = (DATEADD(yyyy, #diffInYears - 1, #birthDate))
DECLARE #firstSixMonthStart DATE
DECLARE #firstSixMonthEnd DATE
DECLARE #secondSixMonthStart DATE
DECLARE #secondSixMonthEnd DATE
SET #firstSixMonthStart = (DATEADD(dd,-(DAY(DATEADD(m,1,#currentBirthDate))-1),DATEADD(m,1,#currentBirthDate)))
SET #firstSixMonthEnd = (DATEADD(dd, -DAY(DATEADD(m,1,#currentBirthDate)), DATEADD(m,7,#currentBirthDate)))
SET #secondSixMonthStart = (DATEADD(dd,-(DAY(DATEADD(m,1,#currentBirthDate))-1),DATEADD(m,7,#currentBirthDate)))
SET #secondSixMonthEnd = (DATEADD(dd, -DAY(DATEADD(m,1,#currentBirthDate)), DATEADD(m,13,#currentBirthDate)))
DECLARE #semiAnnualStart AS DATE
DECLARE #semiAnnualEnd AS DATE
DECLARE #annualStart AS DATE
DECLARE #annualEnd AS DATE
SET #semiAnnualStart = CASE
WHEN GETDATE() > (DATEADD(dd, -DAY(DATEADD(m,1,#firstSixMonthEnd)), DATEADD(m,7,#firstSixMonthEnd)))
THEN (DATEADD(yyyy, 1, #firstSixMonthStart))
WHEN GETDATE() > #firstSixMonthEnd
THEN #secondSixMonthStart
ELSE #firstSixMonthStart
END
SET #semiAnnualEnd = CASE
WHEN GETDATE() > (DATEADD(dd, -DAY(DATEADD(m,1,#firstSixMonthEnd)), DATEADD(m,7,#firstSixMonthEnd)))
THEN (DATEADD(yyyy, 1, #firstSixMonthEnd))
WHEN GETDATE() > #firstSixMonthEnd
THEN #secondSixMonthEnd
ELSE #firstSixMonthEnd
END
SET #annualStart = CASE
WHEN GETDATE() > #secondSixMonthEnd THEN (DATEADD(yyyy, 1, #firstSixMonthStart))
ELSE #firstSixMonthStart
END
SET #annualEnd = CASE
WHEN GETDATE() > #secondSixMonthEnd THEN (DATEADD(yyyy, 1, #secondSixMonthEnd))
ELSE #secondSixMonthEnd
END
SELECT #semiAnnualStart semiStart, #semiAnnualEnd semiEnd,
#annualStart annualStart, #annualEnd annualEnd,
#firstSixMonthStart firstStart, #firstSixMonthEnd firstEnd,
#secondSixMonthStart secondStart, #secondSixMonthEnd secondEnd,
COUNT(*) semiSorties, ISNULL(SUM(hours), 0) semiSortieHours
FROM PilotLog
WHERE pilotID = #pilotID
AND topLevelPosition = 'AVO'
AND flightDate BETWEEN #semiAnnualStart AND #semiAnnualEnd
RESULTS:
semiStart semiEnd annualStart annualEnd firstStart firstEnd secondStart secondEnd semiSorties semiSortieHours
2012-05-01 2012-10-31 2011-11-01 2012-10-31 2011-11-01 2012-04-30 2012-05-01 2012-10-31 1 1.7
This ended up working... Problem is, I'm going to need to do this for every pilot on the overall summary page. Additionally, I'm going to need to calculate this kind of sortie information for snapshots that she wants. She wants to go back to any particular month and see a snapshot, listing each flight as well as the sortie stats they had upon completing that flight. This SQL should work for these situations, it's just I'll have to change it up a bit here and there.
(EDIT: Why doesn't my code scroll horizontally..? I don't want it to wrap. Nevermind that's just internet explorer looks like)