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Re: SQL question from an absolute SQL newbie

FYI: the iDate service program includes UDFs to converts both ways..

iDate(20110108) returns a Date type

ConvertToiDate('2011-01-08') returns a numeric type...

HTH,
Charles

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:01 PM, CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  If the idea of using the full expression for calculating "yesterday"
in the query is not desirable, then the expression can be encapsulated
in a UDF.  And unlike using iDate() or even DATE() on the column for the
predicate, an [deterministic] expression compared to the column should
be little different than comparing the column to a literal.  So instead of:

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