What I do is create an sql VIEW that includes the calculated value and then
add an entity for the view to your model.

John

> On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Joe Kramer wrote:
>>
>>  Hi all,
>>>
>>> I may be barking up the wrong tree here, but I wanted someone to confirm
>>> that for me.  I have a simple Person EO with a NSTimestamp attribute for
>>> birthdate.  I'm wondering if it is possible to create a qualifier to get all
>>> the people whose birthday is in a particular month (May, for example).  The
>>> year doesn't matter so I can't do a simple ">" or "<".  If this isn't
>>> possible (or efficient) I can change the data model to capture the birth
>>> month separately.  Then I can just set the month programatically when a new
>>> person is created and use that value as the qualifier.  Just curious what
>>> others think.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Define "possible".  :-P  The SQL way is
>>
>> select extract(MONTH from col_name) from table_name;
>>
>> So you could write a custom qualifier to do this.  Generally, writing
>> qualifiers ranks as "non trivial".  I don't know of an existing qualifier
>> that you can use.  Depending on your needs, SQL might be the way to go.  See
>> EOSQLQualifier JavaDocs.
>>
>>
>> Chuck
>>
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