Re: [SQL] if else query help

2000-10-12 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Jean-Christophe Boggio wrote: > portion of the day (although I don't know --yet-- how to convert > date2-date1 to an integer, trunc does not work). reltime(date2-date1)::int Will subtract date1 from date2, then cast it to an integer. John

Re: [SQL] if else query help

2000-10-12 Thread Jie Liang
Hey, there, This is very interesting. I have similar problem: I want drop some junky table in my database, how can I detect a table when last time it is used. I try to say that I want to know how long this table has NOT been used at all. I don't which system table holds this statistics. Josh Be

Re: [SQL] if else query help

2000-10-12 Thread Josh Berkus
Brian, Jean-Christophe, >Someone corrects me if I'm wrong, I come from the Oracle world... > > Dates (or I should say TimeStamps) are stored as floating point values > : the integer part is the number of days since a certain date > (epoch or 01/01/1970 on unix-based databases) and the fractionna

Re: [SQL] if else query help

2000-10-12 Thread Jean-Christophe Boggio
hi Brian, BCD> I need to write a query that will pull information from table2 if BCD> information in table1 is older then xdate. BCD> My laymen example: BCD> SELECT table2.date, count(table2.name) as count BCD> WHERE table1.startdate > 2 weeks BCD> AND table2.submitdate > 2 weeks BCD> ; BCD>

[SQL] if else query help

2000-10-12 Thread Brian C. Doyle
Hello all, I need to write a query that will pull information from table2 if information in table1 is older then xdate. My laymen example: SELECT table2.date, count(table2.name) as count WHERE table1.startdate > 2 weeks AND table2.submitdate > 2 weeks ; So i Guess my real questions is how do