Re: SQL Date function question -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:51:04 -0500, Bradley Stone 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

I would expect Jan 1, 2011, stored as MMDDCCYY to be 1012011, not 112011.
If you need to pad zeros into the month and day part of the value how can
you tell if 112011 evaluates to Jan 1, 2011 or Oct 1, 2011? It could even
be Nov 20, 0011. You could use the DIGITS function to return a character
equivalent, complete with leading zeros, but I can't see how that would
help much if you really mean that 112011 evaluates to Jan 1, 2011.

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