Re: How to formate date in where clause?

try

where drop_date = to_date(to_char(sysdate-1,'use your nls_date_format here'))

to avoid dealing with the 'time' portion of a DATE field ( Oracle DATE format is actually a DATE-TIME value)

"Maggie" <maggiezhou_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>I tried to run a query:
>
>select a,b c
>from d_table
>where drop_date = sysdate - 1;
>
>However, I coundn't get value return even I know there are rows matched to
>the query. I understand there must some way to format date. Can anyone
>help?
>
>Thansk.
>Maggie
>

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