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Hi all,

In Oracle and SQL server I have a date/time of 01/01/2005 13.24.54. If
I do a select using the date field with a criteria of 01/01/2005 it
will find it just fine. DB2 requires the selection criteria to be in
the format 2005-01-01-13.24.54.000000 or it will not find it.

Is there a configuration parameter that can be set in the DB2 instance
or if there is a pre-SQL command
(like Oracles Alter Session Set NLS_DATE_FORMAT =....)? How would one go
about doing this?

Thanks in advance.

Henry

Nov 12 '05 #1
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Ian
dbztax wrote:
Hi all,

In Oracle and SQL server I have a date/time of 01/01/2005 13.24.54. If
I do a select using the date field with a criteria of 01/01/2005 it
will find it just fine. DB2 requires the selection criteria to be in
the format 2005-01-01-13.24.54.000000 or it will not find it.

Is there a configuration parameter that can be set in the DB2 instance
or if there is a pre-SQL command
(like Oracles Alter Session Set NLS_DATE_FORMAT =....)? How would one go
about doing this?


select ... from table where date(timestamp) = '01/01/2005'

Nov 12 '05 #2
dbztax wrote:
Hi all,

In Oracle and SQL server I have a date/time of 01/01/2005 13.24.54. If
I do a select using the date field with a criteria of 01/01/2005 it
will find it just fine. DB2 requires the selection criteria to be in
the format 2005-01-01-13.24.54.000000 or it will not find it.


The reason is that a timestamp is conceptually a different thing than a
date. How should DB2 know that you want to find all the timestamps at your
date and not a specific one? To make that explicity, convert the timestamp
to a date and then do the comparison: SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE
DATE(<your-timestamp>) = '01/01/2005'

--
Knut Stolze
DB2 Information Integration Development
IBM Germany
Nov 12 '05 #3

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