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  3. September 2007

Date to 8 char in SQL

I'm trying to get a character representation of the current date in sql. I
can get the date in ISO format, but it has the '-' in it. What is the
easiest way to get the current date in YYYYMMDD format?

I know that I can do something like:

substr(char(curdate(), iso),1,4) concat substr(char(curdate(), iso),6,2)
concat substr(char(curdate(), iso),9,2)

There must be a simpler way?! Isn't there?

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