Re: SQL Date Conversion Statement Error

["Carel Teijgeler" <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

I would use DIGITS in stead of CHAR. CHAR will zero suppress, which will
create strange dates, not accepted by SQL.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler

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On 26-10-2011 at 11:20 Mike Wills wrote:

> I have a field that is a decimal date (YYYYMMDD). I need to find all
records that are a year or less old. Since date are so easy, I am
> trying to do:
>
> WHERE DATE(SUBSTR(CHAR(A.CPADDT),1,4) CONCAT '-' CONCAT
> SUBSTR(CHAR(A.CPADDT),5,2) CONCAT '-' CONCAT
> SUBSTR(CHAR(A.CPADDT),7,2)) > CURRENT_DATE - 1 YEAR
>
> This works great in the SELECT portion. When I put it in the WHERE section
I get "Selection error involving field *N."
> I am really started to hate decimal dates just as much as our other
developer hates date fields.
> Any ideas of what I am doing wrong?