How to truncate sysdate

Question

hello friends
I created a table called log as follows
create table log(logid number,login_date date);
insert into log values(101,sysdate);
after 10 mins i created a cursor as follows..
declare
uname varchar2(30);
logdate date;
cursor name_c is
select logid,login_date from log where logid=101 and login_date=sysdate;
begin
open name_c;
fetch name_c into uname,logdate;
if(name_c%FOUND) then
dbms_output.put_line( 'FOUND');
end if;
close name_c;
end;
set serveroutput on;
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
But i got no result..I found the reason that when i insert into table sysdate stores all fields
including hour,min,sec etc.. But i fetch cursor sysdate[After 10 min] So the time fields change.So only the cursor fetch no rows...Please help me to fetch the row from log table..
How to truncate sysdate field to fetch only date like('18-feb-2011')..

Answer 1

hi there
use trunc(sysdate) in ur cursor
and one more thing
use
exit when name_c%notfound;refer this
DECLARE
   uname     VARCHAR2 (30);
   logdate   DATE;
   CURSOR name_c
   IS
      SELECT   logid, login_date
        FROM   LOG
       WHERE   logid = 101 AND trunc(login_date) = trunc(SYSDATE);
BEGIN
   OPEN name_c;
   FETCH name_c INTO   uname, logdate;
    exit when name_c%notfound;
   IF (name_c%FOUND)
   THEN
      DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('FOUND');
   END IF;
   CLOSE name_c;
END;
/regards
Hitesh