I have a requirement to calculate the number of weeks from a date dimension. For example date value is 2018-05-20 which is in Q2 (for us), I need to figure out if there are 13 or 14 weeks in this quarter. How can this be accomplished?
John, good question! We have a pattern documented in this thread that calculates the days in a quarter. There is also an option to extract the index of weeks in that quarter.
Your use case may be a bit more involved, in particular if you want to account for 92 day quarters (that would include a 14th week index), then instead of the case statement for the week of quarter index dimension:
dimension: weekofquarterindex {
type: number #generates week of quarter index int 1-14
sql: CEILING(${dayofquarterindex}/7.0) ;;
}
Instead of this (from the pattern)
dimension: weekofquarterindex { #defaults to 13 when dayofquarterindex is 92
type: number #generates week of quarter index int 1-13
sql: CASE
WHEN ${dayofquarterindex} = 92 THEN 13
ELSE CEILING(${dayofquarterindex}/7.0) END ;;
}
Thank you!
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