Alright, I figured out where the formatting is incorrect. I shouldn't have had the "published_date=" in there. Now it's giving me, "ORA-01861: literal does not match format" which is much closer. And I still have the question on whether I should use concatenation to create the string once I replace my test string.
> CASE WHEN published_month is not null THEN >published_date = to_date('2003/07/09') ELSE to_date('2003/07/09') END >as published_date and thanks for any assistance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by AdobeĀ® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276768 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4