Re: [SQL] Arithmetic operation on DATE

Ok, so here's my small knowledge on this matter

select date(date('2001-08-20')+interval('6 months'));

date
------------
2002-02-20

I'm sure there's more elegant and shorter ways of doing this, but a quick
answer, maybe you're stuck somewhere :)

Antti

Tested it on 7.0.2.

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, macky wrote:

> is it possible to add a date datatype column to a number resulting to a
> date......
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> theoretically it should do this,,,
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> X is in months
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> date + X = date
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> --> 2001-08-20 + 6 = 2002-02-20
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