Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:
There might be a better way, but this should do what you want. And I think that you can safely replace '05' with when_month.
select to_char( to_date( '05' || '/' || to_char( current_date, 'DD/YYYY' ), 'MM/DD/YYYY' ), 'MON' );
Perhaps select to_char(to_date('02', 'MM'), 'MON');
is better. When current_date is, say Aug 31 then
select to_char( to_date('05' || '/' || to_char(current_date, 'DD/YYYY'),
'MM/DD/YYYY' ), 'MON' );returns 'MAR', which is probably not what you want.
This works with 7.3.2, 7.4.5 and 8.0beta2.
-tfo
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On Oct 12, 2004, at 7:20 PM, Lori wrote:
Im trying to do something very simple I have a field called when_month (integer ) so I want to get the month name for the integer
this comes close to what I want update mytable set myfield=to_char(current_timestamp,'MON');
the result is myfield is set to OCT which is close to what I want but when I try to use a variable update mytable set myfield=to_char(when_month,'MON'); or a char with value of '05' or '5' update mytable set myfield=to_char('05','MON'); get error: update mytable set myfield=to_date(when_month,'MON'); update mytable set myfield=to_char('05','MON'); as well as update mytable set full_month= to_date('01/'05'/2004','DDMONYYYY'); all get errors
Please can anyone help?
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