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Re: Calculating age of a person in PL/SQL

From: cf <news_at_sitinfo.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:31:28 +0200
Message-ID: <3b95ff01$0$14586$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net>


No pb for me.

select trunc(months_between('05-SEP-2001','04-SEP-1971')/12) age from dual SQL > 30
select trunc(months_between('05-SEP-2001','06-SEP-1971')/12) age from dual SQL > 29 "Randi Wølner" <randiwolner_at_hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message news: 9n4uc8$jnr$1_at_oslo-nntp.eunet.no...
> What is the most efficient way of calculating a person's age at a certain
> date?
> I have to create a PL/SQL function for doing it, and first I tried using
> MONTHS_BETWEEN and then dividing by 12,
> but the result will be wrong for the month of the persons's birthday..
>
> I guess someone has done something like this before - and hope you'll
> share..
>
> Thanks,
> Randi Wølner
>
>
Received on Wed Sep 05 2001 - 05:31:28 CDT

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