Convert number Date to real

I have a column that stores Date as a number, 19490128 YYYYMMDD
I need to covert that to a Real Date and then find out current age of person, how would I do that ?
I used to know how, but I forgot :- )
Please help..
10G

Hi,
Kodiak_Seattle wrote:
what about finding out their age using the System Date ?if you subtract one DATE from another, you get the difference, in units of 1 day:
SYSDATE - dtwill return 365 if SYSDATE is April 15, 2010 and dt is April 15, 2009.
If you'd rather have the difference in units of 1 month:
MONTHS_BETWEEN (SYSDATE, dt)or 1 year:
MONTHS_BETWEEN (SYSDATE, dt) / 12Warning: MONTHS_BETWEEN may return un-intuitive results when comparing dates near the end of their months.

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[email protected]

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