RE: Error on update in SQL

["Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley)" <LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This works with a date datatype

update spendmsa set
asofdate = '2000-'||strip(char(month(asofdate)))||'-'||
strip(char(day(asofdate)))

Note the 2000 in quote marks. SQL will interpret this as a date after all
concatenation and character transformation occurs. I have formatted the date
as an ISO (yyyy-mm-dd) for clarity.

HTH,
Loyd



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From: Klein, Ron [mailto:ron.klein@acs-inc.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:40 PM
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Subject: Error on update in SQL


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Hi All,

We are trying to do a update to a date type field thru strsql.

The statement is shown below.  However we keep getting the error that it is
invalid.  We just want to update the year portion of that date datatype
field.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
We are at V4R5.

UPDATE rcaprjh/RCDSC SET year(STSTRDT) =  2000
Token ( was not valid. Valid tokens: =.

TIA

Ron
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