Re: Need help rewriting SQL with TRUNC function

Jan,

Thanks for this reply. What I forgot to mention is that this 7 is a literal
that I substituted for a bind variable :b2.

Sorry about leaving out that critical piece of information.

Cherie

                                                                                       
                          
                    Jan Pruner                                                         
                          
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                                         Subject:     Re: Need help rewriting SQL with 
TRUNC function            
                    11/15/01 10:13                                                     
                          
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Hmm,

my_limit_date DATE := trunc(sysdate) - 6; -- !!! only 6

erh.arrival_dt < my_limit_date

JP

On Thu 15. November 2001 16:00, you wrote:
> I think that the following statement is keeping this application from
using
> an index in my cost-based execution plan. This is an 8.0.4 database so I
> don't have the option of creating a function-based index.
>
> I'm not that great with SQL. Can anyone help me rewrite this statement
so
> that I don't need to use the TRUNC function on this column in blue?
>
> (trunc(sysdate) - trunc(erh.arrival_dt)) >= 7 AND
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cherie Machler
> Oracle DBA
> Gelco Information Network

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