Having ADD_MONTHS problems

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March 7th, 2006, 10:32 AM

rynorem

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Having ADD_MONTHS problems

I CANNOT get my sqlplus script to add months to a date field (date_tng_stat). Can someone please help. Here is the script:

select t.date_tng_stat,
ADD_MONTHS(t.date_tng_stat,6)

If I run the script without the ADD_MONTHS the date_tng_stat comes out in YYYYMMDD ex. 20060307.
THat's how I want the end result of the ADD_MONTHS to be also. Hope this helps. Thanks.

March 7th, 2006, 12:09 PM

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It's just a formatting issue use a to_char to format the result of the add_months, like this:

Code:

SQL> select sysdate from dual;

SYSDATE
---------
07-MAR-06

SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'yyyymmdd') from dual;

TO_CHAR(
--------
20060307

SQL> select to_char(add_months(sysdate, 6), 'yyyymmdd') from dual;

TO_CHAR(
--------
20060907

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