how to get decimal to date form

[wireless]

In our database is a decimal field with format YYMMDDhhmmss.9999999999
where the 9s are random digits. I'm trying to strip off just the
YYMMDD and put it in date form.

So far I came up with:
SUBSTR(TO_CHAR(rec_num,99999999999),1,6) AS Date which returns YMMDD.

For example where the rec_num is 30608124143.47069519725 the above
functions return 30608.

I tried wrapping another TO_CHAR around it to try to format it to a
date but this seems like it's a bit much for this purpose.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

-David

[Simon Hayes]

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In our database is a decimal field with format YYMMDDhhmmss.9999999999
where the 9s are random digits. I'm trying to strip off just the
YYMMDD and put it in date form.

So far I came up with:
SUBSTR(TO_CHAR(rec_num,99999999999),1,6) AS Date which returns YMMDD.

For example where the rec_num is 30608124143.47069519725 the above
functions return 30608.

I tried wrapping another TO_CHAR around it to try to format it to a
date but this seems like it's a bit much for this purpose.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

-David

I think you may have posted this to the wrong group - SUBSTR() and TO_CHAR()
are not MS SQL Server functions.

Simon

[wireless]

"Simon Hayes" <sq*@hayes.ch> wrote:

I think you may have posted this to the wrong group - SUBSTR() and TO_CHAR()
are not MS SQL Server functions.

Yes, right. We've got three different database types here (MS,
Oracle,and Postgre) and sometimes the tsql runs together with the
psql. :o?
-David (I wish they were all sql servers)