RE: Last Fri. of the Month ?

From: lerobe - Lee Robertson <LEROBE_at_acxiom.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 01:46:27 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002BA519.20010222011023@fatcity.com>

I asked exactly the same question a few weeks back. The following works

select trunc(decode(to_char(last_day(sysdate), 'day') ,'FRIDAY', last_day(sysdate)
,next_day(last_day(sysdate), 'FRIDAY') - 7)) from dual;

Regards

Lee

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Sent: 21 February 2001 19:50
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Given Any Date , How to Deduce the Date for the Last Fri. of the SAME Month ?

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