Re: Store datetime field as String

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From: Quinn Wildman (CodeGear Develope...
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 15:51

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You could use extract. Here is a trivial example:

create database foo (f1 string);
insert into foo values (extract(day from current_date) || '/' || 
extract(month from current_date) || '/' || extract(year from current_date));

Note that this example uses implicit type casting.

Craig Cookesley wrote:
> Thanks Wayne
> 
> That worked, except I get the date as DD-MMM-YY when I would like DD/MM/YY
> 
> ie  9- MAY-20 TO 09/05/07
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
>

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