Re: Comparing dates

I think if you cast it then works.

e.g.
'02-03-2001'::date
'02-03-2001'::timestamp

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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Markus Fischer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've a SELECT statement on many joined Tabled and one of them has
> a date column called 'date_date'. When I fetch a date e.g.
> '02-03-2001', I get, say, 60 results back. When I now perform the
> same query with another date, lets take '03-03-2001', I get back
> about 70 results.
>
> When I now modify my query to get both results in one I write
>
> SELECT
> ....
> FROM
> ..
> AND
> date_date >= '2001-03-02'
> AND
> date_date <= '2001-03-03'
> AND
> ....
>
> I think I should get back the rows for both days, 60 + 70 makes
> 130 to me. But what I get back is even smaller then 60. I
> allready tried TO_DATE conversion, an OR construct but always
> the same result.
>
> Is there something special to know when comparing/working with
> date-datetypes ?
>
>
> kind regards,
> Markus
>
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