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Re: Differences between Oracle RDBMS and MS SQL Server

From: Tim Kannel <tdkannel_at_bitstream.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 22:48:41 -0600
Message-ID: <MPG.1498d2a4effc076a9896ac@news.bitstream.net>

In article <3a2e26bf.9946602_at_news-server>, nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam says...
> You mean like ORACLE's date_column+n or date_column-n?
> Or date_column_a - date_column_b? What could be simpler?
>
> :-)

Thanks for pointing that out. I just learned about that at work today. I still prefer actual functions for this particular type of operation, but it's nice to know that the functionality is present.

-- 
Tim Kannel
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Received on Wed Dec 06 2000 - 22:48:41 CST

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