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Need Help decoding a to_date(ed) character field

From: Zook <zook_at_web.com>
Date: 1998/01/16
Message-ID: <34bf6ea4.2889824@news.insync.net>#1/1 







I am trying to perform the following decode statement:



decode(POLICY.APP_DATE,'00000000',to_date('02291999','mmddyyyy'),
to_date(substr(POLICY.APP_DATE,5,2),substr(POLICY.APP_DATE,7,2),
substr(POLICY.APP_DATE,1,4)),'mmddyyyy')




but I keep getting an error message that says:



"ORA-01821: date format not recognized :-1821"



Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this?
Received on Fri Jan 16 1998 - 00:00:00 CST












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