Re: Oracle date format question

  • From: <jtesta@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:39:53 -0400 (EDT)

if the data is fixed length, check out substr, variable but a way to
search use instr and substr.

joe

***** ORIGINAL MESSAGE BELOW *****

 I have a varchar column with data in the format yyyy/mm/dd hh .
 I need to pull the year and the month into separate fields so I can
 select and group them.
 Can anyone tell me the easiest way to do this?

 Thanks!
 Ron=20
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