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Message Posted: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 @ 11:01:25 GMT

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Hi,

A couple of ways come to mind.

(1) use SUBSTRING and CAST:

- using CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as an example (which is TIMESTAMP(6) WITH TIMEZONE <== i.e. 33 characters)

- select cast(substring(cast(current_timestamp as char(33)) from 1 for 10) as date format 'yyyy-mm-dd')

(2) use EXTRACT function to extract the date components and then piece them back together as a DATE column

- select cast((
       (extract(year from current_timestamp)-1900) * 10000
      + extract(month from current_timestamp) * 100
      + extract(day from current_timestamp)
       ) as date)

Cheers,

Dave

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