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SSRS expression to get the year from the DateAdd()

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I am trying to get the year part from the DateAdd function. I am going wrong some where. I tried many methods but still hit with he error

Datepart("yyyy", DateAdd("M",-2,Now)) This does not work. Can you help

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It looks like you're trying to get the year for the day two months ago:

Edit after comment

In your expression in the comment you're getting an error trying to add a string and an integer together.

So it looks like the actual requirement is to get a string like {Month name}-{year} .

You can do this by applying a Format expression to the date, either in the textbox directly:

Or add MMMM-yyyy as the Format property to a textbox with the very first expression:

Either way, for today you get:

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DATEADD (SSIS Expression)

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Returns a new DT_DBTIMESTAMP value after adding a number that represents a date or time interval to the specified datepart in a date. The number parameter must evaluate to an integer, and the date parameter must evaluate to a valid date.

datepart Is the parameter that specifies which part of the date to add a number to.

number Is the value used to increment datepart . The value must be an integer value that is known when the expression is parsed.

date Is an expression that returns a valid date or a string in date format.

Result Types

DT_DBTIMESTAMP

The following table lists the dateparts and abbreviations recognized by the expression evaluator. Datepart names are not case sensitive.

The number argument must be available when the expression is parsed. The argument can be a constant or a variable. You cannot use column values because the values are not known when the expression is parsed.

The datepart argument must be enclosed by quotation marks.

A date literal must be explicitly cast to one of the date data types. For more information, see Integration Services Data Types .

DATEADD returns a null result if the argument is null.

Errors occur if a date is invalid, if the date or time unit is not a string, or if the increment is not a static integer.

SSIS Expression Examples

This example adds one month to the current date.

This example adds 21 days to the dates in the ModifiedDate column.

This example adds 2 years to a literal date.

DATEDIFF (SSIS Expression) DATEPART (SSIS Expression) DAY (SSIS Expression) MONTH (SSIS Expression) YEAR (SSIS Expression) Functions (SSIS Expression)

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Power BI Report Builder Expressions - Date Functions

Daniel Calbimonte , 2022-06-13

Using Power BI Report Builder expressions is an advanced topic that requires a little programming knowledge. You can use if clauses, cases, functions, etc.

In this tutorial, we will introduce the use of Expressions in Power BI Report Builder. We will show especially the Date functions.

Requirements for Power BI Report Builder expressions

• First of all, you need Power BI Report Builder .
• Secondly, the internet to follow this tutorial.

Getting started with Power BI Report Builder expressions

First, we will work with some basic dates. In a report, in the title right-click and select Expressions.

The first example will be a Hello world.

Secondly, run the report to check the results.

Also, you will be able to see the results.

Finally, you can check some simple examples.

Functions in Power BI Report Builder Expressions

In order to check the date functions, go to Common Functions>Date and time. You can see a description and examples here.

Let’s take a look to some examples. These examples were run on 10 Mar 2022.

The FormatDateTime function used as a Power BI Report Builder expression

The formatDateTime function has several options. We will explain each of them.

Day of week function in Power BI Report Builder expression

Monthname function in power bi report builder expressions.

In addition, we have the MonthName function

Datediff and Dateadd

Finally, we will show some examples of the Datediff and DateAdd functions.

Conclusion about the Power BI Report Builder Expressions

In this article, we learn the main Power BI Report Builder expressions. We focused on date functions, but we will have more examples in the next articles.

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Date and Time Functions

Returns a date to which a specified time interval has been added.

DateAdd( interval , number , date )

• yyyy - Year
• q - Quarter
• y - Day of year
• w - Weekday
• number is the number of intervals you want to add. It can be positive (to get dates in the future) or negative (to get dates in the past).
• date is the date to which the interval is added.

To add one year to the current date, you can use the following expression.

Returns the number of time intervals between two specified dates.

DateDiff( interval , date1 , date2 , [ firstdayofweek , [ firstweekofyear ]] )

• date1 , date2 - two dates you want to use in the calculation.
• firstdayofweek is the optional number that specifies the week's first day (Sunday=1, Saturday=7). If not specified, Sunday is assumed.
• 1 - start with week in which January 1 occurs
• 2 - start with the first week that has at least four days in the new year
• 3 - Start with the first full week of the year.

To compare how long it took to ship the order after it was placed, you can use the following expression.

Returns the specified part of a given date.

DatePart( interval , date , [ firstdayofweek , [ firstweekofyear ]])

• date - is a date for which you want to return its part.

You can use the following expression to show the copyright symbol along with the current year.

Returns a date for a specified year, month, and day.

DateSerial( year , month , day )

• year - an integer number between 100 and 9999.
• month - an integer number between 1 and 12
• day - an integer number between 1 and 31

You can use the following expression to construct January 4, 1982

Returns a string value representing the current date in yyyy-mm-dd format.

DateString()

Returns a date from a specified string.

DateValue( date )

• date - a string that contains a date in yyyy-mm-dd format.

You can use the following expression to construct a date from 2020-02-29 string.

Returns a number between 1 and 31, inclusive, representing the day of the month.

Day( date )

• date - a date for which you want to return its day of the month

You can use the following expression to return the day of the month for the current date.

Returns a number between 0 and 23, inclusive, representing the hour of the day.

Hour( date )

• date - a date for which you want to return its hour of the day

You can use the following expression to return the hour of the day for the current date.

Returns a number between 0 and 59, inclusive, representing the minute of the hour.

Minute( date )

• date - a date for which you want to return its minute of the hour

You can use the following expression to return the minute of the hour for the current date.

Returns a number between 1 and 12, inclusive, representing the month of the year.

Month( date )

• date - a date for which you want to return its month of the year

You can use the following expression to return the month of the year for the current date.

Returns a string indicating the specified month.

MonthName( month , [ abbreviate ])

• month - the numeric designation of the month. For example, January is 1, February is 2, and so on.
• abbreviate - the optional boolean value that indicates whether the month name should be abbreviated. The default is false

You can use the following expression to return an abbreviation of the current month.

Returns the current date and time.

Returns a number between 0 and 59, inclusive, representing the second of the minute.

Second( date )

• date - a date for which you want to return its second of the minute

You can use the following expression to return the second of the minute for the current date.

Returns a date containing the current time of day.

TimeOfDay()

Returns the number of seconds elapsed since midnight.

Returns a date containing the time for a specific hour, minute, and second.

TimeSerial( hour , minute , second )

• hour - an integer number between 0 and 23.
• minute - an integer number between 0 and 59
• second - an integer number between 0 and 59

You can use the following expression to construct a date at 3.30 pm time.

Returns a string value representing the current time of day.

TimeString()

Returns a time value from a specified string.

TimeValue( time )

• time - a string that contains a time value for a 12-hour or 24-hour clock.

You can use the following expression to construct a time from 3:15 am string.

Returns the current date at midnight.

Returns a number representing the day of the week.

Weekday( date , [ firstdayofweek ])

• date - a date for which you want to return its day of the week

You can use the following expression to return the current weekday.

WeekDayName

Returns a string indicating the specified day of the week.

WeekdayName( weekday , [ abbreviate , [ firstdayofweek ]])

• weekday - the numeric designation for the day of the week. The numeric value of each day depends on the setting of the firstdayofweek argument.
• abbreviate - the optional boolean value that indicates whether the weekday name should be abbreviated. The default is false

You can use the following expression to return an abbreviation of the current day of the week.

Returns a number between 1 and 4, inclusive, representing the quarter of the year.

Quarter( date )

• date - a date for which you want to return its quarter of the year

You can use the following expression to return the quarter of the year for the current date.

QuarterName

Returns a string representing the quarter name.

QuarterName( date )

• date - a date for which you want to return its quarter name

You can use the following expression to return the quarter name for the current date.

Returns a number representing the year.

Year( date )

• date - a date for which you want to return its year

You can use the following expression to return the current year.

Returns a new date that adds the specified number of years to the calling date.

<Date>.AddYears( years )

• years - a number of years to add. It can be negative or positive.

You can use the following expression to return the date that two years ahead of the current date.

Returns a new date that adds the specified number of months to the calling date.

<Date>.AddMonths( months )

• months - a number of months to add. It can be negative or positive.

You can use the following expression to return the date that five months behind the current date.

Returns a new date that adds the specified number of days to the calling date.

<Date>.AddMonths( days )

• days - a number of days to add. It can be negative or positive.

You can use the following expression to return tomorrow's date.

Returns a new date that adds the specified number of hours to the calling date.

<Date>.AddHours( hours )

• hours - a number of hours to add. It can be negative or positive.

You can use the following expression to return yesterday's date.

Returns a new date that adds the specified number of minutes to the calling date.

<Date>.AddMinutes( minutes )

• minutes - a number of minutes to add. It can be negative or positive.

You can use the following expression to return the date that 30 minutes behind the current date.

Returns a new date that adds the specified number of seconds to the calling date.

<Date>.AddSeconds( seconds )

• seconds - a number of seconds to add. It can be negative or positive.

You can use the following expression to return the date that 45 seconds ahead of the current date.

AddMilliseconds

Returns a new date that adds the specified number of milliseconds to the calling date.

<Date>.AddMilliseconds( milliseconds )

• milliseconds - a number of milliseconds to add. It can be negative or positive.

You can use the following expression to return the date that 654 milliseconds behind the current date.

SSRS Date Formulas Cheatsheet

by Laurel Dsouza — on SSRS  ,  SQL  ,  Reporting  ,  Dashboards —   03 Jul 2016 --->

You may across the need to dynamically generate content, while creating reports and dashboards using SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services). You can pass one of these calculated dates as a default value, when you query a dataset.

To retrieve the first or last day of a given month

First day of current month: =dateadd(“m”,0,dateserial(year(Today),month(Today),1))

First day of previous month: =dateadd(“m”,-1,dateserial(year(Today),month(Today),1))

First day of next month: =dateadd(“m”,1,dateserial(year(Today),month(Today),1))

Last day of current month: =dateadd(“m”,1,dateserial(year(Today),month(Today),0))

Last day of previous month: =dateadd(“m”,0,dateserial(year(Today),month(Today),0))

Last day of next month: =dateadd(“m”,2,dateserial(year(Today),month(Today),0))

To retrieve a specific date on a given month:

For Example, to get the 10th of the previous month =dateadd(dateinterval.month, -1, today().AddDays(-(today().Day-10)))

For Example, to get the 5th of the current month =dateadd(dateinterval.month, 0, today().AddDays(-(today().Day-5)))

For Example, to get the 20th of the next month =dateadd(dateinterval.month, 1, today().AddDays(-(today().Day-20)))

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