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Comparing 2 dates

From: Nicky Taylor <nicky.taylor_at_gecm.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:17:40 -0000
Message-ID: <38916ce1@pull.gecm.com> 





I have a 8 character string field which represents a date in the format
'YYYYMMDD' and I have a date field.  I am trying to subtract one from the
other by doing a TO_DATE on both fields with the format 'YYYYMMDD'.  i.e.



TO_DATE(date1,'YYYYMMDD') - TO_DATE(date2,'YYYYMMDD'))



I keep getting ORA errors complaining about the formatting.



Any help appreciated.



Nicky.


Received on Fri Jan 28 2000 - 04:17:40 CST












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