Very nice: Identify a date format.
*Anybody else?
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Andrew Finkenstadt wrote in part:
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and we select the date_format column based on the likeness of the
date_pattern column, run it through to_date, catch any exceptions, and
return the DATE column.
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In oracle there is the TO_DATE function which accepts at least two
arguments: a field convertible to string, and a string defining the date
format of the first field. This format string involves portions of date
strings like '-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS' , our standard sortable no-timezone
date format
I'm not claiming to have invented anything new, as I was using similar
techniques some 30 years ago in another life (in the employ of a large
blue company which shall remain nameless :-[ ). Not in SQL, you
understand. A pretty thorough search didn't turn up any such use in
online SQL documentat
We've used this exact technique in a table called "ANY_DATE_FORMAT" since
1997... admittedly in Oracle, but the principle still applies.
It's great for coalescing the number of states necessary to implement
parsers. :)
--andy
On 8/18/07, Rod Dav4is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Conventional us
Conventional usage is as follows:
... WHERE column-name LIKE "string"
Which, of course, selects rows where the values in the named column
match the string, which can, and usually does, have wildcards.
I have been using an inverted arrangement:
... WHERE "string" LIKE column-name
This
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