Re: DB2 numeric to date conversion -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 8:58 AM Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Date tables are popular across multiple versions of SQL across multiple
platform. I'm trying to find out if Kent Milligan or Scott Forstie have
any articles or examples on this with DB2 for i.

It's not rocket science. If you really can't or are not inclined to
figure it out yourself, several members of this list I'm sure can
help. I know at least one offered to recently, but I can't remember
who. I didn't offer before, but I also can help, subject to my time
availability.

Basically you have every possible format of a date in each column for every
date for the next 20 years or so.

Anyone who knows what they are doing will create at least 100 years'
worth of rows in their date table, covering both past and future
dates. As I've mentioned whenever this topic comes up, I like to do
400 years. By today's standards, these are very small tables (it takes
146097 rows to cover 400 years).

real date, CCYYMMDD alpha, CCYYMMDD numeric, CYYMMDD, MMDDYY, etc.

Right; the limit is your own need or imagination.

John Y.

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