Re: Oracle date format question

From: <jtesta_at_dmc-it.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:39:53 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <40803.155.188.191.4.1082572793.squirrel@www.dmc-it.com>

if the data is fixed length, check out substr, variable but a way to search use instr and substr.

joe

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 I have a varchar column with data in the format yyyy/mm/dd hh .  I need to pull the year and the month into separate fields so I can  select and group them.
 Can anyone tell me the easiest way to do this?

 Thanks!
 Ron=20

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