Thanks To all for the support!
I managed to use a combination of thesuggestions which worked great!
Denham
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Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:24 PM
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Hello Listers,
I need some help please,
I am trying to create a DECODE
One trick is to use the sign() function...
decode(sign(30 - sysdate + col_date), 1, '30_days', NULL),
Regards
David Lord
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From: Denham Eva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 August 2003 15:24
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: DECODE or not to
One possibility that comes to mind is to write a really,
really long DECODE:
DECODE((SYSDATE - COL_DATE), 1, '30_days',
2, '30_days', 3, '30_days', ... NULL) Days30
But there must be a better possibility. Perhaps use the SIGN
function:
DECODE ( SIGN((SYSDATE - COL_DATE)-30),
-1,
Eva -
I dredged this out of some ancient code that I wrote against a 7.2
database. The inner trunc functions were there to get rid of the time -
I don't remember why the outer trunc function was there at this point
(it was five years ago). This doesn't get you completely there, but
will
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Sent: 04 August 2003 15:39
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: DECODE or not to DECODE
One trick is to use the sign() function...
decode(sign(30 - sysdate + col_date), 1, '30_days', NULL),
Regards
David Lord
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From: Denham Eva [mailto
