Oracle-L: RE: Date data type

From: Richard Ji <richard.ji_at_mobilespring.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:13:36 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0053004E.20030114221336@fatcity.com>

Your between is the same as:

where dt >= '01-DEC-02' and dt <= '31-DEC-02'

and since '31-DEC-02' is '31-DEC-02 00:00:00', you are excluding records after '31-DEC-02 00:00:00'. Hence less records are returned.

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Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi Listers,

Does the date data type is not consistence on oracleDB ? I have the query below :

Create table test (dt date,

                            name varchar230));

SQL > Select * from test where dt between '01-DEC-02' and '31-DEC-02' - it returns 22 rows selected

SQL > Select * from test where to_char(dt,'mmrr')='1202' - it returns 26 rows selected

Why the last query return more rows selected than first query ? All comment would be appreciated.

TIA, Sony
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