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Are you sure, that you are showing the exact statement you are running,
or that your output produced by the statement you showed?
to_char(agy_hist_eff_dt,'DD-Mon-YY HH24:mi:ss') should return something like:
01-Jan-04 00:00:00
and not:
01-Jan-2004 00:00:00
as shown in your output.
Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Ken Naim
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:47 AM
To: 'Vlado Barun'; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Wrong results from date comaprisons
The fields are date fields so AFAIK it cannot be any more precise. Also
if
that were the case the diff should return some tiny fraction
-----Original Message-----
From: Vlado Barun [mailto:vlado_at_cadre5.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:38 AM
To: kennaim_at_gmail.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Wrong results from date comaprisons
Depends on how precise the date columns are... Are you going down to the milliseconds? Your output only goes to the second...
Vlado Barun, M.Sc.
Senior Data Architect, Cadre5
www.cadre5.com
Office: 865 690 4442 Mobile: 865 335 7652 e-mail: vlado_at_cadre5.com
Has anyone experienced this with 10g (10.1.0.4.0)? I am getting wrong
results from the following query. The start and end dates are equal yet,
they are returned by the query and the difference column shows again
that
they should be equal although there are many rows that are filtered
correctly. There aren't any indexes on the fields in questions and there
is
a constraint on the start date field
select to_char(agy_hist_eff_dt,'DD-Mon-YY HH24:mi:ss')
s,to_char(agy_hist_end_dt,'DD-Mon-YY HH24:mi:ss') e,
agy_hist_end_dt-agy_hist_eff_dt d from agency_history a where
agy_hist_void_ind='y'
and agy_hist_eff_dt!=agy_hist_end_dt
S E D 01-Jan-2004 00:00:00 01-Jan-2004 00:00:00 0 13-Oct-2003 00:00:00 13-Oct-2003 00:00:00 0 13-Jul-2004 00:00:00 13-Jul-2004 00:00:00 0 21-Oct-2004 00:00:00 21-Oct-2004 00:00:00 0 01-Jan-2005 00:00:00 01-Jan-2005 00:00:00 0 01-Jan-2004 00:00:00 01-Jan-2004 00:00:00 0 01-Jan-2003 00:00:00 01-Jan-2003 00:00:00 0 22-Jul-1999 00:00:00 22-Jul-1999 00:00:00 0 05-Jan-1998 00:00:00 05-Jan-1998 00:00:00 0 01-Jan-2004 00:00:00 01-Jan-2004 00:00:00 0 07-Jan-2004 00:00:00 07-Jan-2004 00:00:00 0 10-Jun-2004 00:00:00 10-Jun-2004 00:00:00 0 09-Jun-2004 00:00:00 09-Jun-2004 00:00:00 0 09-Nov-2004 00:00:00 09-Nov-2004 00:00:00 0 01-Jan-2005 00:00:00 01-Jan-2005 00:00:00 0 01-Jan-2003 00:00:00 01-Jan-2003 00:00:00 0 01-Jan-2005 00:00:00 01-Jan-2005 00:00:00 0 28-Jun-2002 00:00:00 28-Jun-2002 00:00:00 0 01-Jun-2001 00:00:00 01-Jun-2001 00:00:00 0 01-Jan-2003 00:00:00 01-Jan-2003 00:00:00 0 03-Apr-2000 00:00:00 03-Apr-2000 00:00:00 0 01-Apr-1999 00:00:00 01-Apr-1999 00:00:00 0 28-May-2002 00:00:00 28-May-2002 00:00:00 0 01-Apr-1999 00:00:00 01-Apr-1999 00:00:00 0 01-Jan-2003 00:00:00 01-Jan-2003 00:00:00 0 05-Jan-1998 00:00:00 05-Jan-1998 00:00:00 0 01-Jan-2003 00:00:00 01-Jan-2003 00:00:00 0 01-Jun-2001 00:00:00 01-Jun-2001 00:00:00 0 03-Apr-2000 00:00:00 03-Apr-2000 00:00:00 0 01-Jun-2001 00:00:00 01-Jun-2001 00:00:00 0 01-Jun-2001 00:00:00 01-Jun-2001 00:00:00 0 28-Jun-2002 00:00:00 28-Jun-2002 00:00:00 0 01-Jan-2003 00:00:00 01-Jan-2003 00:00:00 0 22-Jun-1999 00:00:00 22-Jun-1999 00:00:00 0 02-Jul-1999 00:00:00 02-Jul-1999 00:00:00 0 18-Apr-2000 00:00:00 18-Apr-2000 00:00:00 0
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