× The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.


  1.  Home
  2. MIDRANGE-L
  3. July 2011

Re: SQL Date function question

I apologize for the typo, that date would actually be stored as

1012011 (Jan 1, 2011)

Brad

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> 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


As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

This thread ...
Replies:
Follow On AppleNews
Return to Archive home page | Return to MIDRANGE.COM home page

This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact [javascript protected email address].

Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.