Re: SQL Date function question

So this is a character field with the zeros stripped out of month and day? (!)

How would one tell the difference between November 1, 2011 and Feb 11, 2001, which would (I presume) be represented as 1112001?

Not sure how even idate would manage that one!
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"Bradley Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've got a program that uses dynamic SQL and I'm having a hard time
finding documentation for this, or to find out if it's even possible.

The file contains a date in the format MMDDCCYY. I need to compare
the year entered in a query with the year in the date. At first I
thought I could just substring off characters 5-8, but that won't work
since for example:

Jan 1, 2011

is stored as

112011

So obviously that won't work. :)

Does SQL on the iSeries have a way to convert this type of date to
something and then yank the year out to compare it against a text
literal?

Thanks!

Brad
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