Mark,
This is embedded deep within a couple thousand lines of PL/SQL package
code posted on the internet. The package is named EXCHPART, the
procedure is called ADD_NEWER_THAN, and its URL is
http://www.EvDBT.com/exchpart.sql. Here it is excerpted into
pseudo-PL/SQL...
procedure add_newer_than ...
...
v_errcontext varchar2(500);
v_high_value varchar2(100);
v_day date;
type cType is ref cursor;
c cType;
...
cursor get_partition_info ...
is
select ...,
high_value,
high_value_length,
...
from all_tab_partitions
...;
begin
...
for p in get_partition_info ... loop
...
v_high_value := substr(p.high_value, 1, p.high_value_length);
v_errcontext := 'select ' || v_high_value || ' from dual';
open c for v_errcontext;
fetch c into v_day;
close c;
...
end loop;
...
end;
/
So the end result is that the variable "v_day" has the value from
HIGH_VALUE...
Hope this helps...
Tim Gorman
consultant - Evergreen Database Technologies, Inc.
P.O. Box 1802, Evergreen CO 80437-1802
website = http://www.EvDBT.com/
email = Tim@xxxxxxxxx
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Brady, Mark wrote:
Oracle stores the High Value of
a Partition in a Long column. I swear I’ve searched the friendly web, and I just can’t figure out
how to get this long column converted back to a date or char I can take a char to a date.
If it exists on the web, please tell me. I don’t know why
this is so hard to find.
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