Re: SQL question from an absolute SQL newbie -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: SQL question from an absolute SQL newbie
From: Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:23:01 -0400
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FYI: the iDate service program includes UDFs to converts both ways..

iDate(20110108) returns a Date type

ConvertToiDate('2011-01-08') returns a numeric type...

HTH,
Charles

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:01 PM, CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If the idea of using the full expression for calculating "yesterday"
in the query is not desirable, then the expression can be encapsulated
in a UDF. And unlike using iDate() or even DATE() on the column for the
predicate, an [deterministic] expression compared to the column should
be little different than comparing the column to a literal. So instead of:

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