RE: Dates

From: Jacques Kilchoer <Jacques.Kilchoer_at_quest.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:44:30 -0700
Message-ID: <B5C5F99D765BB744B54FFDF35F60262109F8793A@irvmbxw02>

I would add that an expression like "to_date ('25-JUN-04')" depends on your session's current NLS_DATE_FORMAT settings and language settings. The explicit conversion is always the best and you should avoid the use of language-dependent terms like month names (unless of course the date is being formatted for display)
to_date ('2004/06/25', 'YYYY/MM/DD')
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Dan Tow

a still better, functionally equivalent condition would be

NC_DATE_CLS >= TO_DATE('25-JUN-04') AND NC_DATE_CLS < TO_DATE('26-JUN-04') if you want to limit an index range scan using the NC_DATE_CLS column.

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