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swapnadeep.ganguly
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Location: India
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Hi,
When I am trying to extract rows from a table based on the DATE (VARDATE is the column name), I am getting an error in which it is giving the display as "
A character field failed conversion to numeric field
I am using the query:
SELECT * FROM <table name>
WHERE VARDATE IN ('12/1/2006')
Please help me out regarding the same. |
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twissi
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Location: Somerset, NJ
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Swapadeep,
What's the type of VARDATE? Maybe it was a DECIMAL type field (of course with no date separators) which doesn't require quotes.
Cheers, T. |
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stodolas
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| Last I checked, DB2 date formats are 2006-12-01 |
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Craq Giegerich
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| stodolas wrote: |
| Last I checked, DB2 date formats are 2006-12-01 |
The default string version of a date is yyyy-mm-dd but DB2 will accept dates in other formats. Is the select * from actually a select into? If it is then the format of one of the host variables is incorrect. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Did you post the entire query?
Is this query being run in a program, spufi, or somewhere else?
What sql return code did you get? If you post any and all diagnostic the system provided it may help.
If you copy/paste it is usually faster and more readable. |
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twissi
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Swapnadeep,
Use '-' (hyphen) as the date separatro and see it works..! |
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Craq Giegerich
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| twissi wrote: |
Swapnadeep,
Use '-' (hyphen) as the date separatro and see it works..! |
If the date is formatted as yyyy-mm-dd then the '-' is the correct separator but for mm/dd/yyyy you have to use '/'. |
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