RE: days between function in Oracle...

2002-08-20 Thread Dan Haley
-- From: Alex Ninan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:16 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: days between function in Oracle... lets say I have certain dates (x) and (y) now I do a ((x) - (y)) in oracle and I get a number like 18.12 or 18.82 I was doing a round of the result abov

RE: days between function in Oracle...

2002-08-20 Thread Alex Ninan
helps clarify the question... More of a rounding issue. -Original Message- From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: days between function in Oracle... ceiling() will round up What's your question ...days beween dat

Re: days between function in Oracle...

2002-08-20 Thread Alex
ceiling() will round up What's your question ...days beween dates or rounding? On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Alex Ninan wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of a function I can use to get the number of days between 2 > dates in Oracle. My basic problem is I can get the dates but on using the > round functi

RE: days between function in Oracle...

2002-08-20 Thread Alex Ninan
Thanks Sam, That's exactly what I wanted. Learnt something new today... Ceil and Floor functions... -Original Message- From: Sam Farmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 9:52 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: days between function in Oracle... Use the Ceiling or

Re: days between function in Oracle...

2002-08-20 Thread Sam Farmer
Use the Ceiling or Ceil function (can't remember exactly which one it is) Cheers, Sam - Original Message - From: "Alex Ninan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:32 AM Subject: days between function in Oracle... > Hi, > > Does anyon

RE: days between function in Oracle...

2002-08-20 Thread Dan Haley
Use the Oracle trunc function on the dates. Trunc() removes the time portion so both dates are at midnight. trunc(date1) - trunc(date2) Dan > -Original Message- > From: Alex Ninan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:32 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: days between

RE: days between function in Oracle...

2002-08-20 Thread Chris Lofback
Using ROUND() on the dates seems to work. Try something like this: ROUND(date2) - ROUND(date1) Chris Lofback Sr. Web Developer TRX Integration 28051 US 19 N., Ste. C Clearwater, FL 33761 www.trxi.com > -Original Message- > From: Alex Ninan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday,