if you are working with todays date, use sysdate
valid_to_date > sysdate
What driver are you using?
typically for ODBC drivers you need to use to_date
valid_to_date > TO_DATE('04/02/2003', 'MM/DD/YYYY')
...just some thoughts
Doug
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Hannum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:50 AM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: CF5/Oracle Query Question
>
>
>When I run the following query in SQLPlus, any row with a
>'valid_to_date'
>older than today's date is excluded. But when I run the same
>query in CF,
>they are included. Why?
> ~~ CF 5 on Win2K hitting Oracle 8i on IBM Mainframe ~~
> valid_to_date is a date field, not varChar2
>
>SELECT ID, course_prefix, course_number, course_title, valid_to_date
>FROM siswarehouse.course_description
> WHERE course_prefix LIKE 'W%' AND
> (valid_to_date IS NULL OR
> valid_to_date = '' OR
> valid_to_date > '02-Apr-2003')
>ORDER BY course_prefix, course_number
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
>
>
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