Date format (year)

Hello,
i wanna know if it's possible to declare a field in a table, named year, which format being YYYY-YYYY (for example 2007-2008, 2008-2009, etc..)
Thanks

You have a couple of options.
1. Store the START_DATE and END_DATE as DATEs in 2 separate columns. Once you capture your data as a DATE field, you can do any calculations you might want. Also, this gives you the power of timestamping events. Say for eg, your school date starts from June every year and ends in May next year. You could store 01-Jun-2008 in START_DATE (first day of your custom year) and 31-May-2009 in END_DATE (last day of your year). Now, say that in 2009, due to whatever reasons say the year is considered as July-June from 2009 onwards. By storing DATEs, you in fact now know that such a shift really happened.
2. Store only the End year (or start year) as a single DATE column. I still suggest storing a date than a four lettered NUMBER or VARCHAR2. Also, I suggest storing the END_DATE rather than the START_DT - but that is really upto you (my reasoning is - you hear people mostly say when you passed out of school rather than when you started school - like I graduated from college in 1999 or I earned my diploma in 2005). Once you know the END_DATE, start date is not hard to guess or to calculate for that matter, since it is always END_DATE - 1 year in your case. Or ADD_MONTHS(END_DATE, -12).
Though you are just interested in the year part, store the day and month anyway (thus using the DATE datatype). You can easily format your report anyway you wnat if you have the most granular data stored in the first place. So, for 2008, you could store as 01-Jan-2008 or if you know the month, store the month as well - like say 01-Sep-2008. Use a default (like 01) for day and month when you're not sure.
-Shreyas.

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