Mark Harrison wrote:
> I have a table with a DATE field called "started". What's the best
> way to search for rows where started is less than systime - 1 minute?
>
> Here's what I'm using now. Is there a better way?
>
> select * from mytable
> where started<sysdate-(1.0/1440); -- 1440 minutes per day
>
> Many TIA!
> Mark
Looks reasonable to me though I might be inclined to perform the
calculation one time and assign the value to a variable just to
make the logic more explicit.
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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Received on Tue Jul 31 2007 - 22:03:07 CDT
