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Re: SQL and Dates, help needed

On 08-Sep-2011 10:14 , Al Nelson wrote:
I'm trying to select all the records in a file that have yesterday's
date. The field in the file is defined as numeric 8 positions and 0
decimals. It is in a YYYYMMDD format.

I would think a Select with Current Date - 1 would work but is does
not.

any suggestions.


I just added another reply to a separate discussion. In that reply is described a means to handle the above scenario whereby both an existing index on the decimal data can be utilized and whether the decimal data does not properly form a valid YYYYMMDD date value is no more relevant than when constructing the value of "yesterday" as a literal.
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201109/msg00249.html

Regards, Chuck

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