Re: sysdate - 90 mins query

On Sat, 4 May 2002, Stephane Faroult wrote:

> where tm_date >= to_number(to_char(sysdate - 0.0625, 'YYYYMMDD'))
> and to_date(to_char(tm_date)||tm_time, 'YYYYMMDDHH24:MI') >= sysdate -
> 0.0625
>

        has anyone written a dbms_ package for this? i am surprised something isnt included with oracle to cover these time issues. i find myself needed to convert to ctime() or gmtime() so often ... i am so embarrassed to have to whip out the three line sql statement to do it.

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