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Re: variables and select from events table

2002-07-19 10:02:49
Subject: Re: variables and select from events table
From: "Cook, Dwight E" <DWIGHT.E.COOK AT SAIC DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 06:58:51 -0700
I always use things like
 where (cast((current_timestamp-backup_end)day as decimal(18,0))>2)
and you could always throw in something like
where (cast((current_timestamp-backup_end)day as decimal(18,0))>2 and
         cast((current_timestamp-backup_end)day as decimal(18,0))<7 )
to narrow it down within a date range...

but you can "cast" the scheduled_start as variable character length 19 to
get what you want...
cast(scheduled_start as varchar(19) )
Oh, but that might not compare like you want...
converting it to a character string and doing the compare
which gets back to why I do differences as outlined above.

You can also try to break the date out with
        date(scheduled_start) and you can do some comparison like
        date(scheduled_start)='MM/DD/YYYY'
and break the time out with
        time(scheduled_start) and compare like
        time(scheduled_start)='  HH:MM:SS'

anyway, these all work to get different components of date_time fields...

Dwight


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