Re: An easy (I think) SQL question -- MIDRANGE-L

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Think you're missing a cast back to DATE...unless it'd be implicit...

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:45 PM, CRPence <crpbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 29-Jun-2016 10:26 -0500, Rob Berendt wrote:

Using the CURRENT_DATE - (DAY(CURRENT_DATE) - 1) days - 3 months
works

But I usually use
last_day(current_date) + 1 day - 4 months

It'd be nice if IBM added a FIRST_DAY

While I agree, for the ease of having the built-in already there and
generally available, there is little point lamenting the lack of something
so easily done oneself:

create function first_day
( inpDate date
) returns date
language sql
deterministic
return
insert( char( inpDate, ISO ), 9, 2, '01' )
;

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Regards, Chuck

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