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Add +1 to Date Field (Newbie to SQL and Oracle) [message #641856]

Tue, 25 August 2015 17:38

bseismic
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Registered: August 2015
Location: Sac

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Newbie here...

I'm trying to add +1 to a date field.

update XYZ_DETAILS det set det.parameter6 = det.parameter6 + 1 where det.XYZ_id = 38366

The value in det.parameter6 = 2015-08-27 00:00:00

sysdate + 1 from dual works.

Can't get the same approach to work on this table column.

Help

Thank you.

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Re: Add +1 to Date Field (Newbie to SQL and Oracle) [message #641859 is a reply to message #641856]

Tue, 25 August 2015 18:38

BlackSwan
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post results from SQL below

SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS'), TO_CHAR(SYSDATE+1,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') FROM DUAL;

SQL> DESC XYZ_DETAILS

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Re: Add +1 to Date Field (Newbie to SQL and Oracle) [message #641860 is a reply to message #641859]

Tue, 25 August 2015 18:40

BlackSwan
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post results from SQL below

SELECT det.parameter6, TO_CHAR(det.parameter6,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS'), TO_CHAR( det.parameter6+1,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') FROM XYZ_DETAILS det
where det.XYZ_id = 38366;

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Re: Add +1 to Date Field (Newbie to SQL and Oracle) [message #641862 is a reply to message #641856]

Tue, 25 August 2015 19:20

jaramill
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Registered: January 2000
Location: Glendale, AZ

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bseismic wrote on Tue, 25 August 2015 15:38

Newbie here...

I'm trying to add +1 to a date field.

update XYZ_DETAILS det set det.parameter6 = det.parameter6 + 1 where det.XYZ_id = 38366

The value in det.parameter6 = 2015-08-27 00:00:00

sysdate + 1 from dual works.

Can't get the same approach to work on this table column.

I assume you know what adding an integer to a date field does? If not then, basically any integer (i.e. whole number) is equivalent to a full day. So if your current date in the column parameter6 = '2015-08-27 00:00:00' then you are basically wanting to "add" a day. As the first responder "Black Swan" mentions, what is the table description of xyz_details so we can the column definitions and datatypes. Is parameter6 a column with a datatype of "DATE" or is it a VARCHAR2 or CHAR string type?

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Re: Add +1 to Date Field (Newbie to SQL and Oracle) [message #641870 is a reply to message #641856]

Wed, 26 August 2015 06:20

EdStevens
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Registered: September 2013

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Unfortunately, you've given us no actionable information.
We don't know what "Can't get the same approach to work on this table column." really means. Are you getting an error message? Are you getting results other than what you expected?
And we don't know the data type of det.parameter6, so we don't know what should result from adding 1 to it.

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