Re: I am converting a date to a floating/double field in SQL. Using day(date_field) returns 1 and not 01.

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why FLOAT and not integer?

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Darryl Freinkel <
dfreinkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am converting a date field to a floating field - YYYY-MM-DD to a floating
> field.
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> The SQL command I am using is FLOAT or DOUBLE and I convert the date field
> as follows:
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> FLOAT(CHAR(  (YEAR(DATE_FIELD) || MONTH(DATE_FIELD) || DAY(DATE_FIELD) ))
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> The system (V5R3) returns the day portion with the leading zero suppressed
> that is 2001-05-09 is returned as 2001059.00000000. It should return
> 20010509.00000000.
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> Can anyone help with this problem?
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> The problem I have is that I cannot convert it back to a date field in a
> later process.
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> Does anyone have a solution.
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> TIA
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> Darryl Freinkel
>
> Assignment 400 Group, Inc.
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