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inquiry about inmonth function

Hi

can anyone explain what the following expression when it's being multiplied by -1 means?

inmonth (date(TempDate) , date(floor(today())), 0 )*-1
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tresesco
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Inmonth() - returns true(-1) or false(0). Multiplying it with -1, means it returns 1 if true else 0. Hence, for your case - if TempDate belongs to the same month as today then 1 else 0. So it's basically being used for flagging, perhaps in a calendar or date in fact table.

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tresesco
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MVP

Inmonth() - returns true(-1) or false(0). Multiplying it with -1, means it returns 1 if true else 0. Hence, for your case - if TempDate belongs to the same month as today then 1 else 0. So it's basically being used for flagging, perhaps in a calendar or date in fact table.