Jan,
Thanks for this reply. What I forgot to mention is that this 7 is a
literal
that I substituted for a bind variable :b2.
Sorry about leaving out that critical piece of information.
Cherie
Jan Pruner
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Subject: Re: Need help rewriting SQL with
TRUNC function
11/15/01 10:13
AM
Please respond
to jan
Hmm,
my_limit_date DATE := trunc(sysdate) - 6; -- !!! only 6
erh.arrival_dt < my_limit_date
JP
On Thu 15. November 2001 16:00, you wrote:
> I think that the following statement is keeping this application from
using
> an index in my cost-based execution plan. This is an 8.0.4 database so I
> don't have the option of creating a function-based index.
>
> I'm not that great with SQL. Can anyone help me rewrite this statement
so
> that I don't need to use the TRUNC function on this column in blue?
>
> (trunc(sysdate) - trunc(erh.arrival_dt)) >= 7 AND
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cherie Machler
> Oracle DBA
> Gelco Information Network
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