Re: Oracle date format question

From: Guang Mei <gmei_at_incyte.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:45:26 -0400
Message-ID: <NJEDKDKJDGAKAEKKNEEJEEPFDBAA.gmei@incyte.com>

update table
set new_year_column = substr(old_column,1,4),

    new_month_column = substr(old_column,6,2);

• check your cloumn values, if correct

commit;

Guang

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Smith, Ron L. Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:36 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Oracle date format question

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?

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