How do you knock off bank holidays, saturdays and sundays for pay dates

Question

Hi, there,
For simplicity, lets not go a far as bank holidays, at least I want to be able to run a job not using the DBMS.jobs package but on a trigger.
I want payments to go through at least on the 28th day of every month but it might fall on a weekend.
1* SELECT TO_CHAR(TRUNC(SYSDATE, 'MM')+27) FROM DUAL
SQL> /
TO_CHAR(T
28-APR-06
Do you think it can be done to push payment to the next working day if it falls on a weekend.
What do you think is best practise.
Contributions will be highly appreciated.
This is for learning purposes
cube60.

Answer 1

Hi Jameel and others,
I am trying to insert a paymentdate in a monthly_payment table, but would like it to fall on a work day and not a weekend.
Jameel's last post based on a CASE select statement was very useful in helping me out. I have been trying to transform that CASE statement into a function or a procedure. This function or procedure would be fired by a trigger when the date columns need to be filled when updating other columns in the same table using a call procedure.
More or less, this function is meant to fill in just a column in a row or rows of data when the other columns are about to be updated using another procedure.
Am i right with using a function in this situation?
see below for my errors:
SQL> create or replace function paymentdate
2 is
3 return v_date date;
4 Begin
5
6 select to_char(trunc(sysdate,'MM')+27,'Day') into v_date from dual;
7
8 if (v_date) ='sat' then
9 insert into contract_staff_pay (paymentdate) values (v_date + 2);
10 end if;
11
12 if (v_date) ='sun' then
13 insert into contract_staff_pay (paymentdate) values (v_date + 1);
14 else
15 insert into contract_staff_pay (paymentdate) values (v_date);
16 end if;
17 end;
18 /
Warning: Function created with compilation errors.
SQL> show err;
Errors for FUNCTION PAYMENTDATE:
LINE/COL ERROR
2/1 PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "IS" when expecting one of the
following:
( return compress compiled wrapped
Many thanks in advance.
cube60