query on date

Hi

I have a table with the date_of_death as a column dd-mm-yy. Now I wan to run a select statement from this column, where the clause is on the year,

So
select *
from patient
where (trunc ('date_of_death', 'YY') = '94' //where YY is year
Is this the corect way to run this query

Thanks everyone Received on Fri Mar 31 2000 - 05:31:44 CST