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  3. June 2005

RE: SQL insert - all fields

> INSERT INTO OLITMMST (SELECT A.*, CURRENT_DATE 
>                       FROM DMITMMST A 
>                       WHERE ACREC ='D');

Arrgh!  I forgot that DLDATE is a "legacy" date in the form YYYYMMDD.  (I
must have Y2K'ed it before the date data type was available.)

In any case, the following _almost_ worked

INSERT INTO OLITMMST
              (SELECT A.*,
              CURRENT DATE - CAST('0001-01-01' AS DATE)
              FROM DMITMMST A
              WHERE ACREC = 'D'); 

Except DLDATE is 20040515, ie, off by 1 year, 1 month, and 1 day.  Trying to
CAST 0000-00-01 doesn't work.  And you can't CAST a date as decimal.  There
must be a way around this isn't there?  Get today's date as YYYYMMDD?

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