Re: Last Fri. of the Month ?

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> Given Any Date , How to Deduce the Date for the Last Fri. of the SAME Month
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how about
  next_day(last_day(date) - 7, 'Friday') where date is the given date?

for example to find the last Friday of the month select next_day(last_day(sysdate) - 7, 'Friday')   from dual;

                       Pat

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