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Message Posted: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 @ 14:58:57 GMT

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     > SELECT ...
     > (HASHBUCKET
     > (SUBSTRING(StatsData FROM 2 FOR 1) ||
     > SUBSTRING(StatsData FROM 1 FOR 1) (BYTE(4))
     > ) - 1900
     > ) * 10000

You can avoid this complicated SQL by writing a UDF. A UDF can very easily take the first 7 bytes of the Statistics string and turn them into a timestamp (or a date, if that is sufficient for you). You will of course need V2R5.1 or later, a C compiler, and so on.

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