Re: Is There any function to get Difference of Dates

what abt:

 select * from temptbldate WHERE current_date - date(tdate) < CAST ('2 days' AS INTERVAL) ;

?

regds
mallah.


 (EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM TIMESTAMP 'now()')  -
 EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM TIMESTAMP tdate)  )/ 86400 < 2


On Thursday 16 January 2003 03:06 pm, shreedhar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is There any function to get Difference of Dates.
>
> Here tdate is of type timestamp
>
> If I tried
>
> select * from temptbldate WHERE (EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM TIMESTAMP 'now()')  -
> EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM TIMESTAMP tdate)  )/ 86400 < 2
> I got error as 'Parse error at tdate'
>
> select * from temptbldate WHERE (EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM TIMESTAMP 'now()')  -
> EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM TIMESTAMP 'tdate')  )/ 86400 < 2
> If I use 'tdate',  I got 'bad timestamp external representation 'tdate',
> Probably it might be taking 'tdate' as string.
>
> How can I use epoch to get difference of two dates.
>
> Regards,
> Sreedhar
>
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