Question

Example Table:

(Column Heading) Total Interviews of everyone — (Row Heading) Interview Requested

(Column Heading) Number of interviews this week — (Row Value) Count all the dates scheduled this week that have the status: “Interview Requested” e.g 4

(Column Heading) Number of interviews next week — (Row Value) Count all the dates scheduled next week that have the status: “Interview Requested” e.g 6

First of all i’ll like to aploigise about my makeshift table, it seems that i cant use pictures since im a new member.

I am also new to using reportbuilder and sql and have been trying to figure out how i can count the amount of dates that fall between certain date ranges in a report.

Like ive stated in the makeshift field called “Number of interviews this week” I wish to count all the dates scheduled for the current week, the week after, the week before and so on based on a date field. I then plan to break this table down to show all the interviews a single person has schedueled.

The issue I am having is that there will be many dates spanning different months/days. So Im not sure how i can represent this with DateDiff or other date features, because the table is meant to be a live representation of the current interviews.

Is what i’m trying to do even possible using report builder?? If so any tips would be great, if not then thanks for taking the time to look at my question.

As Requested Dataset Fields:

[UserName] (User table), [InterviewStatus] (Interview table), [DateUpdated] (Interview Table)

Those are the main ones that will be used in the report

Answer 1

You can use the generic select statement from your interview table filtering in the where clause for dates between the beginning of the current week and the end of the next.

Then the two fields would be a sum of 1 if the date falls within the current week or next.

EDIT:
Example below will give the number of dates within this week. Taken from another question:

Select InterviewStatus,
       Sum(Case when DateUpdated >= DATEADD(dd, -(DATEPART(dw, GETDATE()) -1), GETDATE())
                     AND DateUpdated < CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), DATEADD(dd, (8 - DATEPART(dw, GETDATE())), GETDATE()), 120) AS DATETIME)
                Then 1
                Else 0 end) 
          as NumberInCurrentWeek
From InterviewTable
Where DateUpdated >= DATEADD(dd, -(DATEPART(dw, GETDATE()) -1), GETDATE())
      AND DateUpdated < CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), DATEADD(dd, (8 - DATEPART(dw, GETDATE())), GETDATE()), 120) AS DATETIME)
Group by InterviewStatus

This just needs to be tweaked to your exact circumstance. For example alter the 8 by 7 will capture the current fortnight.

Then produce a simple table based on the query.