Hey Folks,
The function last_day is there to handle all of that stuff, if you'll RTFM.
Then using that and adding 1 day will always give you the first day of the next
month without all of that substringing stuff.
Sheesh, maybe we need a new 'obfuscated sql' contest again? Like who can
come up with the most obscene way of calculating the 1st, or last, of the
current month from sysdate.
Dick Goulet
PS: actually the answers could be very interesting.
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Author: Stephane Faroult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 1/23/2002 1:31 PM
Charlie Mengler wrote:
>
> I would have thought that the "first day of the month"
> is ALWAYS the 1st, as in 1 (ONE)!
>
> Please explain why it needs to be calculated or
> could be a value other than ONE.
>
> >
> > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/02 10:35AM >>>
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I know this is propablby easy, but I'm a bit
> > overwhelmed here this week. Can you please tell me how
> > to get first and last days of the month given SYSDATE?
> >
> > thanks a lot
> >
> > Regards
> >
Another case of 'On what day does Xmas fall this year? - on December
25th'.
I think that using the TRUNC() function with the suitable parameter must
help you truncate SYSDATE to the first day of the month - perhaps
TRUNC(SYSDATE, 'MM') or similar (too tired to RTFM). Then TO_CHAR with
the suitable format should return whatever you want.
For the last day, I presume that identifying the first day of the NEXT
month and substracting 1 must simplify the 'is this 30/31/28/29'
question.
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Stephane Faroult
Oriole Ltd
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