Re: where clause to include data for the previous 24 hours

No conversions required:

where event_date > (sysdate - 1 + 6/24)

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 8:13 AM

> I need a where clause to ACCURATELY (down to the second) calculate the
> previous 24 hours when a query is run and bump the time by 6 hours
> (event_date is based on GMT). The default date format has been set to
> 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS','NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'.
>
> I've tried the following:
>
> " where event_date > (to_date(substr(sysdate,0,22),'YYYY/MM/DD
HH24:MI:SS')
> + 6/24) - 1".
>
> Any ideas?
>
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