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What would be the most expedient way to convert a 6.0 numeric field that represents a date in MMDDYY format to a 6.0 numeric field that represents a date in YYMMDD order? The resultant numeric is used in an SQL statement comparing it to a numeric (not a date) field. The old technique of YYMMDD = MMDDYY * 10000.0001 appears not to work because the program is cranky at runtime about the result field not being large enough.

Since the compare is a numeric I figured that the math would be numeric. Or, is using a date field and converting it to a numeric host variable for the SQL the way to go?

Pete Helgren


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