FW: [Q] ORACLE date select problem?

From: Ruiz, Mary A (CAP, CDI) <Mary.Ruiz_at_gecapital.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:55:07 -0400
Message-Id: <10648.119231@fatcity.com>

-----Original Message-----
From: Ruiz, Mary A (CAP, CDI)
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 1:53 PM
To: 'L'
Subject: RE: [Q] ORACLE date select problem?

Please ignore my last post - I read this too quickly. I think you want
where datestamp < to_date('31-DEC-96','DD-MON-RR')   (assuming datestamp is a date datatype)

or maybe
  where datestamp < to_date('31-DEC-1996','DD-MON-YYYY')

if datestamp is a varchar2, then you would need to convert it using the appropriate format.

Mary Ruiz
Atlanta /GA

-----Original Message-----
From: L
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 11:35 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: [Q] ORACLE date select problem?

On ORACLE 7.3.4 database, I tried to select date less than "31-DEC-96". the following statement does NOT work correctly:

   select account_id, datestamp from table1    where to_char(datestamp,'DD-MON-YY') < '31-DEC-96';

It still print date like '21_JAN-98'.

Anyone can give me a hint?

Thanks

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