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Just a point of fact...

DDS handles date & time fields just fine.

Charles


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Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 2:40 PM
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Subject: RE: Converting Integer to Dates

And that's the unfortunate state of affairs for 90% of the
programs we have here - they all use a DDS to create the PFs.

/b;

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Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 2:26 PM
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Subject: RE: Converting Integer to Dates

You know, if the software companies would abandon DDS and
move to SQL's DDL to define their fields, and, use real date
fields instead of numerics or characters, that could not
possibly occur.

Rob Berendt
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In SEQUEL, it's CVTDATE(yourdate,ymd1). Plus, it'll be invaluable in
finding
bogus dates your application software package stuffed into
your files.

I just found a case where an A/R aging routine made a bunch
of due dates
equal to 20070931 for customers whose terms code is thirty
days, and the
invoices were created on September 1st. This was following a package
upgrade
done in August. Don't software companies have people to test
their code
anymore? Sheesh.

Paul Nelson
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Office 512-392-2577
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Depends what you mean by easy!!

Something like a bunch of character casts and substrings is
what you do.

date(substr(char(yourdate), 1, 4) concat '-' concat
substr(char(yourdate),
5, 2) concat '-' concat substr(char(yourdate), 7, 2))

will get you the date in a date data type - similarly, do that with
yourtime

time(substr(char(yourtime), 1, 2) concat ':' concat
substr(char(yourtime),
3, 2) concat ':00')

Better yet, write a user-defined function that'll take the integer and
return the date - much cleaner - and RPG can do the
conversion much more
neatly.

HTH
Vern

-------------- Original message --------------
From: "Brian Piotrowski" <bpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi All,



Is there an easy way in the SQL interpreter to convert an
integer to a

date? The original programmers thought it was cool to dump all
date/time fields into int 8/4 which sucks when you're trying to do
calculations on them (they also like to use a 25h clock,
but that's a
whole other can of worms).



I tried a cast([field] to date), but the interpreter didn't
like that.

I'd prefer to have the SQL server return the value without
having to
resort to additional code in my RPG program. As I
mentioned, the field

are set up as YYYYMMDD (8int) and times are set to HHMM
(4int - no SS
in

our tables!).



Thanks,



/b;



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