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Message Posted: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 @ 15:48:42 GMT
| Subj: | | Re: ADD_MONTHS |
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| From: | | Dieter Noeth |
Hassinger, Bill wrote:
| | Eric, I was giving a general tool for determining the last day of any month. Which is: go to the first day of the subsequent month, and
subtract one day. While Dieter's method may be "simpler" in the event of the last day of last month, you can't use it to find the last day of the
current month, or the last day of any month but the last month. | |
Your algorithm is the right one, but your implementation isn't, too many parentheses ;-)
sel (date '2003-11-30' - (EXTRACT(DAY FROM DATE '2003-11-30')+1))-1;
*** Query completed. One row found. One column returned.
*** Total elapsed time was 1 second.
((2003-11-30-(EXTRACT(DAY FROM 2003-11-30)+1))-1)
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03/10/29
sel (date '2003-11-30' - EXTRACT(DAY FROM DATE '2003-11-30')+1)-1;
*** Query completed. One row found. One column returned.
*** Total elapsed time was 1 second.
(((2003-11-30-EXTRACT(DAY FROM 2003-11-30))+1)-1)
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03/10/31
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