Wow.
I had no idea there would be so many ways to do this.
Thank you all so very much for your quick responses.
I've already executed Marc's fix, and everybody is
happy.
Thanks!
Barb
- Marc Perkowitz <mperkowitz_at_twjconsulting.com>
wrote:
> How about:
>
> update custtest_barb
> set crdate = add_months(crdate, -12*1000)
> where cusno=798489;
>
> Marc.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barbara Baker" <barbarabbaker_at_yahoo.com>
> To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 2:00 PM
> Subject: update year in date column
>
>
> >
> > OK, I'm just going to bite the bullet and claim
> total
> > ignorance here and see if someone takes pity on me
> :(
> > (sad face a nice touch, eh?)
> >
> > Someone has accidently updated 378 records in the
> > customer table. The date changed from 1999 to
> 2099.
> > I need to change just the year back to 1999 for
> these
> > records. (I'd like to keep the time stamp, if
> > possible. The month and day are correct.) I
> looked
> > on metalink, google, and asktom. Some nice
> examples,
> > but not what I really need.
> >
> > Thought I'd be clever and subtract 1000 from the
> date.
> > This works, but I don't know how to get it
> formatted
> > back into a date.
> >
> > I'd prefer just sqlplus, but will use pl/sql if
> > necessary.
> >
> > Here's what I've done so far:
> > (solaris 9 oracle 9.2.0.4)
> >
> > JServer Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production
> >
> > DOC> CUSNO CUSNAME
> > CRDATE
> > DOC>---------- -----------------------------------
> > ----------
> > DOC> 798489 GILBERT, ROSS
> > 09/16/2099
> > DOC> 826744 HOEFLER, MATT
> > 10/08/2099
> > DOC> 795126 FORT, JOETTA
> > 09/08/2099
> > DOC>*/
> >
> > SQL>
> > SQL> ---select
> to_date(to_char(crdate,'MM/DD/YYYY'))
> > from customer where cusno=798489;
> > SQL> ---update advdb.custtest_barb
> > SQL> ---set crdate= to_char(crdate,'MM/DD/YYYY'))
> > SQL> ---from customer where cusno=798489;
> > SQL>
> > SQL> select
> >
>
to_date(to_char(crdate,'ddmmyyyy')-1000),'MM/DD/YYYY')
> > 2 from customer where cusno=798489;
> > select
> >
>
to_date(to_char(crdate,'ddmmyyyy')-1000),'MM/DD/YYYY')
> >
>
> > *
> > ERROR at line 1:
> > ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected
> >
> >
> > SQL>
> > SQL>
> > SQL> --- these both work
> > SQL> select to_char(crdate,'ddmmyyyy') from
> > custtest_barb where cusno=798489;
> >
> > TO_CHAR(
> > --------
> > 16092099
> >
> > SQL> select to_char(crdate,'ddmmyyyy') - 1000 from
> > custtest_barb where cusno=798489;
> >
> > TO_CHAR(CRDATE,'DDMMYYYY')-1000
> > -------------------------------
> > 16091099
> >
> > Thank for any assistance.
> >
> > Barb
> >
> >
> >
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