RE: Error on update in SQL

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

With all due respect, the below does not work. "Argument 1 of function YEAR
not valid" because the year function only works on dates, not "numbers".
Trying "set ststrdt = year(date('2000-01-01'))" results in "Value for column
or variable XXX not compatible." because you are setting a date to a single
integer value (year).
Please see my previous post for a solution. Not pretty, but works.

Thanks,
Loyd

-----Original Message-----
From: Carel Teijgeler [mailto:coteijgeler@chello.nl]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:26 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Error on update in SQL


Hello  Ron,

I do not think you can use a function that way on a SET statement.

Perhaps  SET STSTRDT =  year(2000) may work.

Regards.
Carel Teijgeler

======= At 2002-08-01, 13:39:00 you wrote: =======

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

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