Re: Newbie SQL & dates question

Sheesh! I feel kinda silly. That is easy. Thanks very much!   Marc Mazerolle <informaze_at_sympatico.ca> wrote in message = news:37826786.1758FFE6_at_sympatico.ca...
  Let say your month/year string is '071999' and is called V_DT, you = could select like so :
  SELECT ...
    FROM EVENT_TABLE
   WHERE EVENT_DATE BETWEEN TO_DATE('01'||V_DT,'DDMMYYYY')

                        AND LAST_DAY(TO_DATE('01'||V_DT,'DDMMYYYY')); 

  Simple really.

  Marc

  Rich Gilmour wrote:

    Hello coders.
    I'm working on a web-based events calendar which allows a user to = select a

    month/year, then builds a calendar for the appropriate month/year, = and fills

    the day slots with any matching dates from an Oracle table = containing events

    and their dates.

    The problem I'm currently stumped on is how to construct the SQL = select

    statement. The page which displays the calendar is passed two = values, month

    & year. I need to get all records in a table whose date field = matches the

    dates passed from the form - basically all records for a given month = and

    year. The tricky part is that the dates in the database are in the = Oracle

    12:00:00:000AM/PM format and I need to compare this against a = month/year

    string....how does one do that?!?

    I suspect I need to do some formating in the host language rather = than SQL

    (in this case Tcl --- yikes).

    Any insight/advice is greatly appreciated.

    Rich Gilmour Received on Tue Jul 06 1999 - 16:01:39 CDT