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Quote Nav522 Replybullet Topic: Help: previous month name
    Posted: 20 Nov 2009 at 11:09am
Hello Folks,
                    I am trying to retrieve the name of the previous month. I was able to get the current month name like this "

to_char(sysdate,'FMMon YYYY')

" but finding it hard to get the previous one. Does anybodyy hav any idea about this one.
 
 
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 20 Nov 2009 at 11:45am
MonthName(month(dateadd('m',-1,currentdate)))
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Quote Nav522 Replybullet Posted: 20 Nov 2009 at 11:52am
hey thanks for getting back. It returns with MonthName as Invalid Identifier. Any idea about why its happening.
 
 
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 20 Nov 2009 at 11:55am
Are you using this a s crystal synatx formula and what version of crystal are you using?
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Quote Nav522 Replybullet Posted: 20 Nov 2009 at 12:05pm

well am creating a report using the sql query through the Command option. I shud pull the previous monthname for the report and we are using BOXIR2 and the server is Oracle server.

 
 
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 20 Nov 2009 at 12:16pm
My formula was for a crystal syntax formula.
Not sure for Oracle.
 
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