How to Work with Date Range SQL Parameters in Sigma Computing

A practical example of using Date Range Control Elements in SQL queries as parameters

Sigma Computing is a cloud analytics platform that uses a familiar spreadsheet interface to give business users instant access to explore and get insights from their cloud data warehouse. In this tutorial, I will share with you my experience with Date Range parameters that I found really challenging.

Sigma has a collection of “Control Elements” such as “TEXT BOX”, “LIST VALUES”, “SLIDER”, “RANGE SLIDER”, “DATE”, “SWITCH”, “DRILL DOWN” and “TOP N”

These elements can be used as filters or as SQL parameters for the dashboards. In this tutorial we will focus on the Date range control type.

As we can see, we should add the Control ID, where in my case is mydaterange. Then, this Control ID will be used in the SQL as a parameter. Finally, there is the Control label which is the label that will appear in the dashboard, where in my case is Date Range. As you can see below, we have created the control element called Date Range and we have passed a start and an end date.