How to get next months date

Question

Hi. How do i return date records of next month?
I am aware i may need sysdate.
At the moment i have been trying:
WHERE delivery_date = ADDMONTHS (sysdate, 1);
No avail.
Ideas?

Answer 1

Hello
If you mean you want to set up a range from the start of next month to the end of next month. This shows what happens when you apply add_months to sysdate
SQL> select sysdate from dual;
20-NOV-05
SQL> select add_months(sysdate,1) from dual;
20-DEC-05
--Truncate sysdate to the first day of the month and then add 1 month
SQL> select add_months(trunc(sysdate,'MM'),1) from dual;
01-DEC-05
--do the same, but use LAST_DAY to get the date of the last day next month
SQL> select add_months(trunc(sysdate,'MM'),1),last_day(add_months(trunc(sysdate,'MM'),1)) from dual;
01-DEC-05 31-DEC-05So with that in mind, you probably need to do something like
WHERE
    delivery_date BETWEEN add_months(trunc(sysdate,'MM'),1) AND last_day(add_months(trunc(sysdate,'MM'),1));If you just want to get rows for "this" day next month you may well need to set a date range up especially if the delivery_date has not been truncated to set the time portion to 00:00:00
WHERE
    delivery_date = ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(sysdate),1))
WHERE
    delivery_date >= ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(sysdate),1))
AND
    delivery_date < ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(sysdate),1)) + 1HTH
David
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