Find first and last day for previous calendar month in SQL Server Reporting Services (VB.Net)

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Randall, here are the VB expressions I found to work in SSRS to obtain the first and last days of any month, using the current month as a reference:

First day of last month:

=dateadd("m",-1,dateserial(year(Today),month(Today),1))

First day of this month:

=dateadd("m",0,dateserial(year(Today),month(Today),1))

First day of next month:

=dateadd("m",1,dateserial(year(Today),month(Today),1))

Last day of last month:

=dateadd("m",0,dateserial(year(Today),month(Today),0))

Last day of this month:

=dateadd("m",1,dateserial(year(Today),month(Today),0))

Last day of next month:

=dateadd("m",2,dateserial(year(Today),month(Today),0))

The MSDN documentation for the VisualBasic DateSerial(year,month,day) function explains that the function accepts values outside the expected range for the year, month, and day parameters. This allows you to specify useful date-relative values. For instance, a value of 0 for Day means “the last day of the preceding month”. It makes sense: that’s the day before day 1 of the current month.

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