So often in PeopleSoft, we have the necessity to send notifications after 'n' number

of business days. The considerations in calculating 'n' no. of business days are:

 Number of Saturdays and Sundays - Weekend days can be identified using

standard ORACLE(can be in any database) functions and removed from a
result set. In some countries where Saturday is a working day and Monday a
holiday, we can still process the date +/- 'n' calculation using database
functions.
 Company specific holidays (not just Country/State/Region specific).
PeopleSoft provides a table called PS_HOLIDAY_DATE in which holidays are
maintained with a unique field called HOLIDAY_SCHEDULE based on which
holidays are keyed in. We have to make use of this table and Oracle(any
database) standard functions in PeopleCode and calculate the number of
business days or identify the 'n'th business day from a given date.

In some cases such as a SQR or a PS-Query we have to rely purely on SQL to

calculate. In PS-Query it can get little complex without the use of standard
programming functions and loops which PeopleCode and SQRs provide. We have
to write one single SQL to get the desired results as we do not have the option of a
Stored Procedure in a PS-Query. Though not a trivial SQL with some patience one
can write the SQL. I was able to write such a SQL and I am sure there could be
much better ways to attain the same result with an even simple SQL. After all, no
query is optimal and so is mine.

Through out this post, all dates hardcoded in the SQL queries are the input dates
which must be passed at run-time. The desired result for us is to fetch all hires just
10 days prior to a given date from JOB record. To achieve this, first we need to find
out the 10th business day from a given date. I have listed all the SQL queries I used
iteratively from the scratch to reach to the desired 'n'th business day.

1) Query which gives day of a date in DAY format:

SELECT to_char(sysdate+10,'DY'),sysdate from dual);

2) Query which gives day of a date in day number format:

SELECT to_char(sysdate+10,'D'),sysdate from dual);

3) Query gives 'n' number of rows for each day from the input date where 'n' is
the number in rownum condition:
SELECT
TO_DATE ('31-dec-2008', 'DD-MON-YYYY') + rownum the_date
FROM
all_objects
WHERE
ROWNUM < 10;

4) Query to give number of business days excluding Saturday, Sunday and

Holidays:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM (SELECT rownum rnum
FROM all_objects
WHERE rownum <= to_date('30-nov-2009') - to_date('25-nov-2009') + 1)
WHERE to_char(to_date('25-nov-2009') + rnum -1, 'DY')
NOT IN ('SAT', 'SUN')
AND to_char(to_date('25-nov-2009') + rnum -1)
NOT IN (SELECT to_char(holiday)
FROM ps_holiday_date
WHERE holiday_schedule
= 'Reqd_Schedule'));

5) Query which lists all holidays between two dates:

SELECT rnum-1+to_date('22-nov-2009')
FROM (SELECT rownum rnum
FROM all_objects
WHERE rownum <= to_date('30-nov-2009') - to_date('22-nov-2009') + 1)
WHERE ( to_char(to_date('22-nov-2009') + rnum -1, 'DY')
IN ('SAT', 'SUN'))
OR ( to_char(to_date('22-nov-2009') + rnum -1)
IN (SELECT to_char(holiday)
FROM ps_holiday_date
WHERE holiday_schedule
= 'Reqd_Schedule'));

6) This query gives a date 10 days prior to a given date excluding weekends
and holidays:
SELECT MIN(busdate) AS tendaydate
FROM (SELECT busdate, busday
FROM (SELECT to_date('30-Nov-2009', 'DD-MON-YYYY') - rownum + 1
busdate,
(to_char(to_date('30-Nov-2009') -rownum + 1, 'DY')) busday
FROM all_objects
ORDER BY 1) NO_WKEND
WHERE to_char(NO_WKEND.busdate, 'DY')
NOT IN ('SAT', 'SUN')
AND NO_WKEND.busdate
NOT IN (SELECT to_char(holiday)
FROM ps_holiday_date
WHERE holiday_schedule
= 'Reqd_Schedule'))
ORDER BY 1 DESC) NO_WKEND_HOLID
WHERE rownum < 11;

Note: In the last line of the SQL, in the condition - 'WHERE rownum < 11' number 11
gives the 10th business day prior to a given date. To get the 30th business day 'use
rownum < 31'. The number used here must be 'n'+1 to find the 'n'th business day.
7) This query gives hires from JOB record prior to 10 days (our desired result):
SELECT * from PS_JOB A
WHERE A.HIRE_DT = (SELECT MIN(busdate) AS tendaydate
FROM (SELECT busdate, busday
FROM (SELECT to_date('30-nov-2009', 'DD-MON-YYYY') -
rownum + 1 busdate, (to_char(to_date('30-nov-2009') -rownum + 1, 'DY')) busday
FROM all_objects
ORDER BY 1) NO_WKEND
WHERE to_char(NO_WKEND.busdate, 'DY') NOT IN ('SAT',
'SUN')
AND NO_WKEND.busdate
NOT IN ((SELECT to_char(holiday)
FROM ps_holiday_date
WHERE holiday_schedule
= 'Reqd_Schedule'))
ORDER BY 1 DESC)NO_WKEND_HOLID
WHERE rownum < 11);