RE: WinNT / 8.0.5 / DECODE function affecting Century result in date

From: Greg Solomon <greg.solomon_at_betfair.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:01:57 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0038CD05.20010913014522@fatcity.com>

!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Hi George

Your code looks fine to me and I have no idea why it wouldn't work. But if it turns into a pain in the neck, why not write a wee PL/SQL function to do the century thing for you and also trap nulls ?

There's a reason you might want to do this anyway: presumably you will sooner or later start receiving dates in the current century, e.g. if your file contains 000101 don't you want a function that will turn it into 01-JAN-2000 rather than 01-JAN-1900 ?

Cheers
Greg

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Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2001 01:12 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L date

List,

I have a 6-position column, bdate, in a text file that I am trying to SQL*Load formatted as yymmdd. When I use the following SQL operations I get the following results:

SQL Operation: (bdate POSITION(001:006) CHAR "TO_DATE(:bdate,'YYMMDD')") Result in the database: Next Century, e.g. '300223' becomes '23-FEB-2030'
SQL Operation (bdate POSITION(001:006) CHAR "DECODE(:bdate,NULL,NULL,TO_DATE('19'||:bdate,'YYYYMMDD'))") Result in the database: Next Century, e.g. '300223' becomes '23-FEB-2030'

but when I take out the DECODE in item 2, I get the correct century. I only use decode because there are null values in this column. Can somebody explain to me what I am missing here?

Thanks,

George

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