YEARFRAC
Updated: 23 May 2016
Use YEARFRAC to calculate the fraction of the year represented by the number of whole days between two dates.
Syntax
SELECT [westclintech].[wct].[YEARFRAC] (
<@Start_date, datetime,>
,<@End_date, datetime,>
,<@Basis, nvarchar(4000),>)
Arguments
@Start_date
the start date for the calculation. @Start_date is an expression that returns a datetime or smalldatetime value, or a character string in date format.
@End_date
the end date of the security. @End_date is an expression that returns a datetime or smalldatetime value, or a character string in date format.
@Basis
Is the type of day count to use. @Basis is an expression of the character string data type category.
@Basis
|
Day count basis
|
0 or omitted
|
US (NASD) 30/360
|
1
|
Actual/Actual
|
2
|
Actual/360
|
3
|
Actual/365
|
4
|
European 30/360
|
21
|
Actual/ISDA
|
Return Type
float
Remarks
· If the @Basis is not 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 21, YEARFRAC returns an error
Example
Select wct.YEARFRAC('02/29/2008'
,'03/31/2008'
,0)
Here is the result set
----------------------
0.0861111111111111
See Also