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Re: How to get a substring from a cast SELECT?

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From: Dan Palley
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:15
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"Nando" <nando@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get a substring from a date field using SELECT 
> CAST(DateField AS CHAR(12)) but I can't find the way for doing so.
>

Can you give us an example of what output you're trying to get?  I assume 
you're using IB 6 Open Edition.

Have you looked at the EXTRACT function?

Dan 
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