On Firebird which function we can use instead of to_date function on oracle.
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Like Oracle Interbase/Firebird will automatically convert a string representation of a date/datetime to a date, however, you may CAST the string value to a date/date time explicitly by:
cast('2/1/2001' as date)
cast('01-FEB-2001' to date)
cast(NULL as date)
cast('TODAY' | 'YESTERDAY' | 'TOMMOROW' | 'NOW' as date)
you also may add the time component
cast('01-FEB-2001:23:59:59
"Time wait for no man, but has been known to wait for turtles"
Daniel P.
BTW, You've told that Firebiord is unstable.
One bug was found indeed, fixed in Yaffil 1.3.881, guess will be fixed in some hot-fix to FB1.5
CREATE PROCEDURE TEST
AS
declare variable i integer;
begin
i = 0;
while (i < 1000) do
begin
select sum(distinct rdb$relation_name) from rdb$relations into :i;
when any do i = i + 1;
end
end
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by: vowcaPosted on 2004-03-01 at 03:45:51ID: 10485399
What is this function supposed to do?
Do You think each of us has Oracle at home ? It is too expensive for that.
If as it is just type conversion, try
CAST (value AS TIMESTAMP) or CAST (value AS DATE) or CAST(value AS TIME) and same patter apply for any time.