Re: To_Char Problem

because it is.

its not a problem with oracle, its a problem with the way the query is written.

make the date mask YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS instead.

last i checked in math101, a number(or character string) 8 digits long, that starts with a 31 is larger than an 8 digit number starting with 01.

joe

karthikeyan S wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I am using the to_char function in the following query. But it treats the date '31/12/2001' as greater than '01/01/2002'.
>Is there any solution to fix this problem?
>
> select distinct(a.default_type_id), a.new_val
> from amend_default_value a, amend_default_value b
> where a.effective_from <= sysdate and
> a.effective_to >= sysdate and
> a.group_id = '942' and
> a.default_type_id = b.default_type_id and
> to_char(a.updated_date,'dd/mm/yyyy hh:mi:ss') =
> ( select max(to_char(updated_date,'dd/mm/yyyy hh:mi:ss'))
> from amend_default_value c
> where c.effective_from <= sysdate and
> c.effective_to >= sysdate and
> c.group_id = '942' and
> c.default_type_id = b.default_type_id);
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>regards,
>Karthik
>

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