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Re: ??? Number of days betwwen two dates?

From: Jack Boyle <zingster_at_msn.com>
Date: 1997/08/05
Message-ID: <01bca208$0e20cd00$b31b2399@default>#1/1

I'm sure you figured out that to accurately calculate the number of whole days between two dates is subtraction with truncation. For example,

Select trunc(First_date)-trunc(Second_date) from dual;

Truncate-ing will leave only the whole number difference.

Jack Received on Tue Aug 05 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT

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