!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Hi George
Your code looks fine to me and I have no idea why it wouldn't work. But if
it turns into a pain in the neck, why not write a wee PL/SQL function to do
the century thing for you and also trap nulls ?
There's a reason you might want to do this anyway: presumably you will
sooner or later start receiving dates in the current century, e.g. if your
file contains 000101 don't you want a function that will turn it into
01-JAN-2000 rather than 01-JAN-1900 ?
Cheers
Greg
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List,
I have a 6-position column, bdate, in a text file that I am trying to
SQL*Load formatted as yymmdd. When I use the following SQL operations I get
the following results:
1. SQL Operation: (bdate POSITION(001:006) CHAR
"TO_DATE(:bdate,'YYMMDD')")
Result in the database: Next Century, e.g. '300223' becomes
'23-FEB-2030'
2. SQL Operation (bdate POSITION(001:006) CHAR
"DECODE(:bdate,NULL,NULL,TO_DATE('19'||:bdate,'YYYYMMDD'))")
Result in the database: Next Century, e.g. '300223' becomes
'23-FEB-2030'
but when I take out the DECODE in item 2, I get the correct century. I only
use decode because there are null values in this column. Can somebody
explain to me what I am missing here?
Thanks,
George
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