Re: SQL question

>>Jared.Still_at_radisys.com wrote:
>> . never trust Vladimir Begun, check everything what he's saying :)
>>
>> Trust?
>>
>> I don't know you well enough to not trust you.

>May be 'trust' is not a right word here :) Sorry.

Mine was supposed to have a :). Sorry.

> . never use the sql that looks cool but does not work properly
> . never tune a query that returns wrong result and compare its
> performance with that one that works correctly but slowly.
>
> As you will see in another post, both queries
> return identical results for me on 8.1.7.

Check default NLS_DATE_FORMAT parameters of your session.

Yup, that was it.

Though I tend to always use mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss unless there's some particular reason to do otherwise.

Jared

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