Re: help with to_date and to_char

Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:
> There might be a better way, but this should do what you want. And I
> think that you can safely replace '05' with when_month.
>
> select to_char( to_date( '05' || '/' || to_char( current_date, 'DD/YYYY'
> ), 'MM/DD/YYYY' ), 'MON' );
>

Perhaps
select to_char(to_date('02', 'MM'), 'MON');

is better. When current_date is, say Aug 31 then

select to_char( to_date('05' || '/' || to_char(current_date, 'DD/YYYY'),
'MM/DD/YYYY' ), 'MON' );

returns 'MAR', which is probably not what you want.

This works with 7.3.2, 7.4.5 and 8.0beta2.

> -tfo
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> On Oct 12, 2004, at 7:20 PM, Lori wrote:
>
>> Im trying to do something very simple
>> I have a field called when_month (integer )
>> so I want to get the month name for the integer
>>
>> this comes close to what I want
>> update mytable set myfield=to_char(current_timestamp,'MON');
>>
>> the result is myfield is set to OCT
>> which is close to what I want but when I try to use a variable
>> update mytable set myfield=to_char(when_month,'MON');
>> or a char with value of '05' or '5'
>> update mytable set myfield=to_char('05','MON');
>> get error:
>> update mytable set myfield=to_date(when_month,'MON');
>> update mytable set myfield=to_char('05','MON');
>> as well as
>> update mytable set full_month= to_date('01/'05'/2004','DDMONYYYY');
>> all get errors
>>
>> Please can anyone help?
>>
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