Setting Report date parameters - sql-server

I have a report written in visual studio running on a SQL server 2005 DB.
I want it to automatically apply the day before's date
- start at 00:00:00 and end 23:59:59
From my pic the code I use is
=DateAdd(Dateinterval.day, -1, Now()) for the start date
and for end date I use
=Now()
These values get me a report for the last 24 hours but I want to get the report to run just for the 24 hours of the previous day. How would I do this?

I think you should be using Today() instead of Now().
Both will give today's date, but Today() will not include any time portion.

You should only use one date paramater being yesterday =DateAdd(DateInterval.Day, -1, Today()).
Then to use this your data should be truncated to the date only and filtered to equal this parameter getting yesterday only irrispective of the time.

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Dynamic dates in SSRS

I need to make a report of all patients who had an appointment last week. This report will be added to another excel with some lookups and then put into Power BI because we don't have way of connecting our sql server.
I'm trying to reduce the amount of manual work I have to do by instead of using parameters with dates, adding a dynamic date.
I have tried using TODAY, CURRENT_DATE and they all come back with an error.
I just need it to give me data for 7 days prior to the current date
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This is what the first part looks like:
SELECT
PM.vwApptDetail.Patient_Last_Name
,PM.vwApptDetail.Patient_First_Name
,PM.vwApptDetail.Patient_DOB
,PM.vwApptDetail.Appointment_DateTime
,PM.vwApptDetail.Appt_Type_Desc
,PM.vwApptDetail.Resource_Desc
,PM.vwApptDetail.Status
FROM
PM.vwApptDetail
WHERE
PM.vwApptDetail.Appointment_DateTime >
I ended up using:
WHERE Appointment_DateTime BETWEEN GETDATE() AND DATEADD(DAY, -7, GETDATE())
and it seems to have worked.

Group by 24hr Period starting at 7:00 AM

I have some high frequency data that I need to group by 24hr period starting at 7:00 AM. How can I do that?
For example, there is a timestamp every 5 minutes and I want to group it by day, but each day starts at 7:00 AM.
How would I go about doing that?
SQL Server 2016.
I am going to presume your time is probably in UTC.
I would look at converting the time to the timezone you need. Then it gives you more options of how you want to deal with the data, also you could customize the report for people in different zones. For some info about timezones I found this stackoverflow post.
Convert datetime value from one timezone to UTC timezone using sql query
Something like this in an group by clause should work. The code below says if the hour is under 8 then it's still yesterday, else it's really today. You would need to replace the getdate() with the correct column. If I Am correct about that the times are in UTC/GMT I would recommend looking at just converting it to the timezone you want.
case when datepart(hh, getdate())<8 then
cast((DATEADD(day, -1, getdate())) as date)
else
cast(getdate() as date)
end

Microsoft Query Current Month

Sorry guys - new to this - complete novice.
I am pulling data from a SQL Server from Excel using Microsoft Query.
I'm currently limiting fields to just invoices within a date range using:
=#10/1/2017# And <#10/31/2017#
My date format is:
2017-10-02 00:00:00.000
I run this report many times during the current month - so I need to change the string above when the new, current month, begins.
I'd love for someone to give me the command that will always pull the current month - regardless of the month - thus allowing me to not have to alter the condition when a new month begins.
Thank you in advance.
The question is not so clear but here is what you can try with:
To find today with date and time:
=NOW()
To find the beginning of the month:
=EOMONTH(A2,-1)+1
To find the end of the month:
=EOMONTH(A2,0)
Let me know if this is what you are expecting.

last day of last month date expression in ssis

I have to create a derived column to upload a date in OLEDB destination because my source file doesn't contain this date. The date i want to get through derived column is last day of last month. Does anyone know how to get it?
Try the following expression, just substract the current day from the current date using DATEADD Function.
DATEADD("d", -DAY(GETDATE()), GETDATE())
If you want to remove time you have two choices:
convert to string
LEFT((DT_STR,50,1252)DATEADD("d", -DAY(GETDATE()),GETDATE()),10)
convert to string then to date (it will generate time 12:00 AM)
(DT_DATE)LEFT((DT_STR,50,1252)DATEADD("d", -DAY(GETDATE()),GETDATE()),10)
The simplest way if you don't need time is :
(DT_DBDATE)(DATEADD("d",-DAY(GETDATE()),GETDATE()))

Executing a sql script every month for the first and last 16 days.

I have a script that I have had to ran manually a few times but now it looks like it will need to be ran twice a month. The problem is the dates are dynamic and the job needs to run on the 1st and 16th of every month but it will need to pull all data from the last 16 days. So for example, if we run it on the first of this month (Jan) the dates would be >= 2016-12,16 and <= 2016-12-31
I have been looking at the date function sql server has but I am not really sure if it will work for what I need.
I would look at DateAdd, and add a negative number of dates to the value to go back 16 days.
DATEADD(DAY, -16, GETDATE()).
I would personally just run a script with cron and set it up to run on the 1st and the 16th of every month.

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