R: PL/SQL & sysdate

What are you using? In my environment your code works perfectly.

Marco Nicolazzo
OCP DBA <blank214_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message 8ivkf1$s18$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I want to get the current year from the database & convert it to a
> number. The PL/SQL block compiles, but hangs when I try to execute it.
> The following is the problem statement:
>
> select to_number(to_char(sysdate, 'YYYY'))
> into thisyear from dual;
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance - Jennifer
>
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Received on Fri Jun 23 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST