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  3. December 2005

Re: SQL Newbie question

If there are true dates (DDS type L), another way would be to use the date
segment functions such as:

Select Month(DateField) As theMonth,
    Year(DateField) As theYear,
    Day(DateField) As theDay
...

These return numeric types that will sort correctly also.


On 12/22/05, DeLong, Eric <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In SQL there is no native facility for mapping numeric date values into
> date
> types, but you can do what you want with a fairly simple expression...



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