James, thanks! Have you ever used Coldfusion CFQUERY to create a function?
My setup script loads the database tables via coldfusion, and I can't get the function to work creately when I create it via cfquery... - Rick James Holmes wrote: > As it turns out, it was an act of volunteering: > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION month (MyDate DATE) RETURN NUMBER IS > BEGIN > RETURN extract(MONTH FROM MyDate); > END month; > / > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION year (MyDate DATE) RETURN NUMBER IS > BEGIN > RETURN extract(YEAR FROM MyDate); > END year; > / > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 3 February 2005 9:54 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Blog app > > James Holmes wrote: > >> >>Just wrap a PL/SQL function around a to_char() call with the >>appropriate date mask. No, that's not an act of volunteering :-) > > > Actually the way I do it in postgres is this (note, these are the first > functions I've ever written in any database language) > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION Month(timestamp) RETURNS double precision > AS 'select extract(month from $1)' > LANGUAGE SQL > IMMUTABLE > RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT; > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION Year(timestamp) RETURNS double precision > AS 'select extract(year from $1)' > LANGUAGE SQL > IMMUTABLE > RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT; > > > Since oracle supports extract() as well, it should be similarly easy. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:192889 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
