Checking for month boundaries given a date

Hello everyone,
Given a date, I have to check whether a date is the 1st or last in the month, I have some views of doing it ,but looking for the best and efficient method to start with.
Replies are greatly apprecaited.
Thanks,
Greeshma.

Hi,
Many of Oracle's date functions allow a parameter where you can override the current NLS settings only for that function call.
For example:
SELECT TO_DATE ( 'JUIL.'
                 , 'MON'
                 , 'NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE=FRENCH'
                 ) AS month
FROM    DUAL;You could also create your own table of month names
NAME     NUM     LANGUAGE
JANVIER   1     FRENCH
JANV       1     FRENCHand look up the names in this table, rather than in a string hard-coded in the function. This might be especially useful if you wanted to allow your own abbreviations or spellings (e.g., ignoring accent marks).
Edited by: Frank Kulash on Dec 16, 2010 11:40 PM

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