Re: How can I detect an invalid date string in SQL? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: How can I detect an invalid date string in SQL?
From: dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:14:29 -0400
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"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 04/17/2019
09:36:22 AM:

In SQL, how can I detect a NULL returned by a function like DATE() or
DEC()?

This is my statement:

select storagedt, ifnull(dec(date(storagedt)), 0) as "as Decimal" from
mytable

What if you reversed that to the following?

dec(ifnull(date(storagedt), 0))

Sincerely,

Dave Clark

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