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Totally understood, Rob. And I've explained that. A couple years ago
when I started this project I Saw those dates and said "WHOA!!!!".

The excuse, you guessed it.. "it's always been that way".

Brad

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:32 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Glad to hear you have it resolved.

One advantage to using something like Alan Campin's iDate (or your own
UDF) is that you can bury it into a view and not have to duplicate the
date conversion into every query.  For example, if I do
CREATE VIEW ECHL97 AS (SELECT idate(hedte,*CYMD) as OrdDate, ...
Then in subsequent queries you can just shoot against that.

The only problem is that the sort/select performance isn't as good as
going against the raw date.  You know, the old
select ... where hedte = ConvertDateToNumber(current date)
will outperform
select ... where ConvertNumberToDate(hedte) = current date

But your lousy MMDDCCYY stored date is pretty worthless for
sorting/selecting in any performance manner for any ranges.  Oh, it may be
ok for one exact date but that's it.


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