calculate fiscal year in sql select statement?

Question

I have a date field that needs to return in fiscal year format. example

Start_Date        Year 
04/01/2012 -      2013
01/01/2012 -      2012
09/15/2013 -            


        

Answer 1

declare @Date smalldatetime, @FiscalYearStartMonth tinyint
set @Date = GETDATE();
set @FiscalYearStartMonth = 1; -- Jan

print convert(varchar(4), 
case when MONTH(@Date) < @FiscalYearStartMonth 
then YEAR(@Date) -1 
else YEAR(@Date) end)

assuming @Date is your [Start_Date] field, you can:

select * from yourTable 
group by convert(varchar(4), 
case when MONTH([Start_Date]) < @FiscalYearStartMonth 
then YEAR([Start_Date]) -1 
else YEAR([Start_Date]) end)

Hope this helps