On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:05:15 +0100, Jacqui Caren wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:54:46 -0500, Hapworth, Adam wrote: > > > > oh wait. 7-Aug won't work on a date in oracle. Oracle defaults to upper > > > caseing everything so a like on "%7-Aug%" will not match "07-AUG-02" due > > > to the case difference. Try uppering the data you are testing for. do an > > > " '%' || upper($date) || '%' " and see what that does for you. > > > Only if your instance inherists DD-MON-YYYY from an unmodified default init.ora > > Try > > alter session set NLS_DATE_FORMAT='DD-Mon-YYYY HH24:MI:SS' > > The case of the MON or MONTH case depends upon the case of the (NLS)DATE_FORMAT. > > i.e. > > select TO_DATE(SYSDATE,'YYYY-Month-DD HH24:MI:SS') from DUAL > > select TO_DATE(SYSDATE,'YYYY-Mon-DD HH24:MI:SS') from DUAL > select TO_DATE(SYSDATE,'YYYY-MON-DD HH24:MI:SS') from DUAL
Ooops I meant s/TO_DATE/TO_CHAR/ :-) Jacqui Caren, Ingram Group Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +44 (0) 1483 8628xx main=00 fax=01 ddi=65 http://www.ig.co.uk/ http://www.sitedirector.org/ http://www.perl.co.uk/
