Re: Calculating difference between dates in SQL

Mark--

thanks for pointing it out

--Jerome

On Aug 30, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Mark Adkins wrote:

You need to convert your numeric into a date format. The best syntax I

have found is to go through the timestamp function.

date( timestamp( digits(hhdob) || '000000' ) )

Mark

date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:55:23 -0500
from: "Dave Boettcher" <DBoettch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Calculating difference between dates in SQL

hello,

I have been experimenting with interactive SQL to try to formulate a
statment for later use.

What I need to do is calculate an age for a client . The client master

contains the birth date in numeric form 8,0.

My statement, culled from various books and articles looks like this:

SELECT
days(current date) - days(date(hhdob))
"Age" ,
hhdob, hhnaml, hhnamf,
  hhcase FROM ClientMaster

The result always seems to look like this:

        "Age"   BIRTH YYYYMMDD            case
++++++++++++++    19,820,926                 4
++++++++++++++    19,820,924                 5
++++++++++++++    19,840,909                 6
++++++++++++++    19,820,915                 7
++++++++++++++    19,820,806                 8
++++++++++++++    19,810,108                 9
++++++++++++++    19,820,330                10

From reading it seems like age should be a number, why can't I see it?

Thanks in Advance for any help,

Dave Boettcher

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