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Calculate full years and partial months between 2 dates


I'd like to know how to calculate full years and number of full months between two dates and combine them into one column:

Ex: My beginning date is a column named "TransferDate" = 7/1/2017 and Today (11/14/2019) My desired output would be a column named "Age" = 2.3

2 Full Years (2017 - 2019) .3 Full Months (August, September & October)


Solution

  • Take a look and see if this gives you what you are looking for.

    Declare @date1 date = '11/01/2001'
    Declare @date2 date = '12/01/2002'
    
    Select @date1
        ,@date2
        ,Case 
        when datediff(M,@date1,@date2) < 12 then ''
        when datediff(M,@date1,@date2) < 24  then 'one year'
        else cast(floor(datediff(M,@date1,@date2)/12) as varchar(20)) + ' Years'
        end  +  ' ' +
    Case 
        when datediff(M,@date1,@date2) - floor(datediff(M,@date1,@date2)/12)*12 = 0  then ''
        when datediff(M,@date1,@date2) - floor(datediff(M,@date1,@date2)/12)*12 = 1 then 'one month'
        else cast(datediff(M,@date1,@date2) - floor(datediff(M,@date1,@date2)/12)*12 as varchar(20)) + ' Months'
        end