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Can this be done? [message #371915]

Wed, 20 December 2000 10:28

Rob
Messages: 70
Registered: January 2000

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Hello,

Is this a "valid" statement?

select max(yr||mo) as LatestSubmission from TableA where fieldA = 'ABC'

....with year/month data being:
ABC yr=2000 mo=1
ABC yr=2000 mo=4
ABC yr=2000 mo=7
ABC yr=2000 mo=12

....I'm assuming this should return 200012....but it isn't, I get an "earlier" result.

Is this the right way to approach this query?

Thanks

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Re: Can this be done? [message #371921 is a reply to message #371915]

Thu, 21 December 2000 06:39

John R
Messages: 156
Registered: March 2000

Senior Member

I suspect that it is returning the 2000,7 result.
If so it would be because it is doing a string comparison rather than a numeric one.

If you did max((year*100)+month) then you should get the right result

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Re: Can this be done? [message #371923 is a reply to message #371915]

Thu, 21 December 2000 08:40

me
Messages: 66
Registered: August 2000

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select max( to_date(yr||mo, 'yyyymm') )

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