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Re: UDF returning a Boolean

On 2/4/2012 3:00 PM, CRPence wrote:
On 04-Feb-2012 12:19 , Joe Pluta wrote:
Nope, no Boolean. And no date formatting either. Those are a
couple of reasons that SQL makes me crazy. In fact, I just got
done extending Alan Campin's phenomenal iDate routine to add
date formatting.

On 03-Feb-2012 14:04 , Kurt Anderson wrote:
Can a UDF return a Boolean value?<<SNIP>>

FWiW: Some limited date formatting [ISO, USA, EUR, JIS, LOCAL] is
available from the CHAR and VARCHAR scalars. Also effectively [the date
would need to be cast as TIMESTAMP] even more capabilities in date
formatting should be available using the VARCHAR_FORMAT [aka TO_CHAR]
scalar.

Limited is being kind. They stink. I don't know if you've ever tried VARCHAR_FORMAT but I've only ever gotten it to work with two format strings: "YYYY-MM-DD" and "YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS". Anything else gets me a QRY2293 error.

Joe

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