I rewrote the report to make it user friendly to my colleagues who aren't
familiar with Roman numerals. . . little tweaks like this I can do. It's
the syntax and commands that I don't know how to use properly that's the
real problem.
SELECT
CASE SUBSTR(ExtractValue(m.marcxml,'//controlfield[@tag="008"]'),8,2)
WHEN '15' THEN '16th'
WHEN '16' THEN '17th'
WHEN '17' THEN '18th'
WHEN '18' THEN '19th'
WHEN '19' THEN '20th'
WHEN '20' THEN '21st'
ElSE 'Unknown' END
AS Century, count(DISTINCT biblionumber) AS bibs FROM biblioitems m
GROUP BY century
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:08 PM, BWS Johnson <abesottedphoe...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Salve!
>
> Way late response since I can't check my personal email at work.
>
>
> >Ahrgh
> >not enough sleep last night
> >1900s=20th century. .
> >
>
> Even if it's by Century, the initial ones had
>
>
> >>>> WHEN '18' THEN 'XVIII'
> >>>> WHEN '17' THEN 'XVII'
>
> So either way, it's flubbed, since that ought be XIX and XVIII
> respectively.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brooke
>
>
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