Comparing a date value

Is there an easy way to determine if a date value is within the current month?
I usually compare the month and year value of the date to the month and year value of the current date to determine this, but there must be a more elegant way.
Thanks
Frank

This is the only way I can think of...
if month({datefield})+" "+year({datefield})=month(currentdate)+" "+year(currentdate) then "yes" else "no"
Regards,
Zack H.

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Hi,
I am executed a query to get output for the particular date in two different database.
I got output in one db environment, but in the another environment i didnt get the output.
APP_DECISION_DATE column contains date datatype
ex:
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in the same db i got the output while i used the TO_DATE(APP_DECISION_DATE)
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Sorry & thanks sathish,
Now i got the result.
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Hi all,
I have to include a statement in a query which allows to compare the current value of column A with the previous value of column A (same column). from there, I need to add a condition in order to have the expected result.
Let's take an example to illustrate what I want to achieve:
I have the following columns in table called 'Charges':
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SID1111 9998 MD5552 50
SID1111 9999 MD5553 50
SID2222 8887 MD6661 80
SID2222 8887 MD6662 80
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SID3333 6666 MD7771 90
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user11961002 wrote:
Hi,
Here is the query that I use:
[ select
sl.ship_id,
o.ordnum,
o.reffld_5 "BatchNR",
sum(tc1.chrg_amt) "FreightPRC",
sum(tc2.chrg_amt) "FuelPRC",
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join adrmst a2 on (o.rt_adr_id = a2.adr_id)
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left join tm_chrg tc2 on (tc2.chargetype = 'FUELSURCHARGE'and tc2.chrg_role = 'PRICE' and tc2.ship_id = sl.ship_id)
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]That looks like the query you were using before you started this thread.
Modify it, using the analytic fucntions FIRST_VALUE and LAG, like I showed you.
I see that you did simplify the problem quite a bit, and it's good that you did that.
It doesn't matter that your real problem involves joins or GROUP BY. Analytic functions are calculated on the results after all joins and GROUPS BYs are done. Just substitute your real expressions for the simplified ones.
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Here's a less obvious example: in your simplifed problem, there was a column called price, but I see now that it's really SUM (tc1.chrg_amt + tc2.chrg_amt + tc3.chrg_amt). Where the solution I posted earlier says "TO_CHAR (price)", you should say "TO_CHAR (SUM (tc1.chrg_amt + tc2.chrg_amt + tc3.chrg_amt))". (You can't use an alias, like "Total Price", in the same SELECT clasue where it is defined.)
I removed some columns from the select as they are not relevant for the wanted action like 'adress details or other references'.
Now here is the result:
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SID0132408     MDK-000014-05602649     04641401     110     10 120
SID0132408     MDK-000014-05602651     04641402     110     10 120
SID0132408     MDK-000014-05602652     04641363     110     10 120
as you can see, the 3 orders have the same shipment ID.
The expected result should be shown under column 'Total Price' as follows:
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SID0132408     MDK-000014-05602649     04641401     110     10 120
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before the formatted section and this different character
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