| Archives of the TeradataForumMessage Posted: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 @ 15:03:25 GMT
 
 
  
| Subj: |  | Strange results - Date Formatting |  |  |  | From: |  | JAMES PARK |  
 TD 13.0 on Windows Server. 1) When I execute these two queries, 
     SELECT CURRENT_DATE (FORMAT 'Y4:M4:D3'); SELECT CURRENT_DATE (FORMAT 'Y4-M3-DD');
 I get one result, 
     Current Date
     8/27/2010
 This is not what I expect to see. The format doesn't work. Why does this happen? 
 2) This query, SEL CURRENT_DATE (FORMAT 'YYYY/MM/DD); doesn't run while below three run and produce results. Why is it so? 
     SEL CURRENT_DATE (FORMAT 'DDbMMMbYYYY'); SEL CURRENT_DATE (FORMAT 'mmmBdd,Byyyy'); SEL
     CURRENT_DATE (FORMAT 'DD.MM.YYYY');
 
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