Re: SQL Date function question -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: SQL Date function question
From: CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:02:49 -0700
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On 06-Jul-2011 14:39 , Alan Campin wrote:

<<SNIP>> you can use the RIGHT and CHAR functions to
get out the year.

Select DIGITS(RIGHT(CHAR(field80),4))

Given that "field80" is declared DEC(8,0), in order to avoid some extremely /weird/ results [see DIGITS for effect on character string versus numeric data types], that expression is almost positively not desirable; i.e. having produced a 63-byte character string of [the wrong] digits.

Regards, Chuck

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