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How to get data from current period -1 of current period

Luis98

Hello,

I need to get data from Aug 21 to Sept 21, but i dont want to use "Previous month", if not something like "current month -1", it´s possible?

Thanks

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ankit_cheeni

Hi @Luis98

Previous is the best way to go about it if you consider engine load on Anaplan but you can also use LAG or OFFSET. The least efficient would be to do a Month-1 and then lookup basis that.

There is a beautiful thread comparing these 4 functionalities which you can find here: https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Anaplan-Platform/Performance-Comparison-OFFSET-LAG-PREVIOUS-LOOKUP/td-p/51140

Let me know if this is helpful 🙂

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ankit_cheeni

Hi @Luis98

Previous is the best way to go about it if you consider engine load on Anaplan but you can also use LAG or OFFSET. The least efficient would be to do a Month-1 and then lookup basis that.

There is a beautiful thread comparing these 4 functionalities which you can find here: https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Anaplan-Platform/Performance-Comparison-OFFSET-LAG-PREVIOUS-LOOKUP/td-p/51140

Let me know if this is helpful 🙂

Luis98

@ankit_cheeni You are a genius, thank you very much!!! I have another question, if i want to pull the average of the previous 3 months, how can i do it? Regards!!

ankit_cheeni

Hi Luis,
Misbah has given the best solution to this question on your other thread and when Misbah says something, Anaplan usually obliges 🙂

Misbah

@ankit_cheeni haha!

friedaritter

Assuming you have a date column named date_column in your database table, you can construct a query like this to retrieve b2b data enrichment from August 21st to September 21st of the previous month:

SELECT *
FROM your_table
WHERE DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 MONTH) >= DATE_FORMAT(date_column, '%Y-%m-21')
AND CURDATE() < DATE_FORMAT(date_column, '%Y-%m-21');

In this query:

CURDATE() returns the current date.
DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 MONTH) subtracts one month from the current date, effectively giving you the first day of the previous month.
DATE_FORMAT(date_column, '%Y-%m-21') converts the date in date_column to a string in the format 'YYYY-MM-21', where '21' represents the 21st day of the month.

The WHERE clause checks if the date in date_column falls between the first day of the previous month (inclusive) and the first day of the current month (exclusive), effectively giving you data from August 21st to September 21st of the previous month.

You can adjust the your_table and date_column placeholders in the query to match your specific table and column names.

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