derived bucket from 4 different date fields

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Hi,

I have around 4 different columns with dates in it and these columns are string/varchar data types..

need to derive a column from these 4 fields call it as Bucket ..got stuck with converting the string as these columns has some text in it like ---------- ----- ----H which can be converted into some dummy date say 1900-01-01

based on Today's date - get the buckets into 7 days, 14 days, 21 days, 28 days, 28Over

look for each value in each field and derive is it 7 days from today, 14 days from today, Etc in one single column called bucket

---------- ----- ----H - this is what I see when I query In SQL server mgmt. studio but when I paste into excel it shown as #NAME? - any help please

MaintenanceWindow cycle1date MaintenanceWindow cycle3date MaintenanceWindow cycle2date MaintenanceWindow cycle4date

NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME?

NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME?

2018-06-04 12:00 6H 2018-08-06 12:00 6H 2018-06-04 12:00 6H 2018-09-03 12:00 6H
2018-06-04 12:00 6H 2018-08-06 12:00 6H 2018-06-04 12:00 6H 2018-09-03 12:00 6H
2019-12-07 00:00 4H 2020-06-06 00:00 4H 2019-12-07 00:00 4H 2020-09-05 00:00 4H
2020-10-10 13:00 6H 2020-12-12 13:00 6H 2020-10-10 13:00 6H 2021-01-09 13:00 6H
2020-12-12 08:00 8H 2021-06-12 08:00 8H 2020-12-12 08:00 8H 2021-09-11 08:00 8H
2020-10-25 04:00 6H 2020-12-27 04:00 6H 2020-10-25 04:00 6H 2021-01-24 04:00 6H
2019-12-11 14:00 4H 2020-06-10 14:00 4H 2019-12-11 14:00 4H 2020-09-09 14:00 4H
2019-03-06 14:00 4H 2019-09-11 14:00 4H 2019-03-06 14:00 4H 2019-12-11 14:00 4H
2020-06-13 08:00 4H 2020-12-12 08:00 4H 2020-06-13 08:00 4H 2021-03-13 08:00 4H
2017-10-29 08:00 6H 2017-12-24 08:00 6H 2017-10-29 08:00 6H 2018-01-28 08:00 6H

NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME?

NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME?

2019-01-11 00:00 8H 2019-07-12 00:00 8H 2019-01-11 00:00 8H 2019-10-11 00:00 8H

NAME? #NAME? #NAME? #NAME?

Answer 1

Hi @raj thadak ,

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