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Message Posted: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 @ 08:02:16 GMT
| Subj: | | Re: Days between |
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| From: | | Dennis Calkins |
Sam Mosley wrote:
| | sel current_date - ('2002/02/01' (date)) (interval day(3)); | |
| | You can specify your interval in days, months to days, etc. The number in the parenthesis (3) is the number of digits to hold the
answer. If you don't provide sufficient digits it will error with an overflow. | |
If you specify interval day it limits the result to that many digits
interval day(1) returns a value < 10 and OVERFLOW if >= 10
interval day(2) returns a value < 100 and OVERFLOW if >= 100
interval day(3) returns a value < 1000 and OVERFLOW if >= 1000
interval day(4) returns a value < 10000 and OVERFLOW if >= 10000
The last one amounts to about 27 years. however you don't need to specify interval day(x)
sel current_date - ('1966/01/23' (date)) ;
*** Query completed. One row found. One column returned.
*** Total elapsed time was 1 second.
(Date-'1966/01/23')
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13191
works just fine and allows for values beyond 27 years.
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