How to use MONTH NAME in where condition in date column?

Question

Hi dudes,
this is the table.
sql>desc ACMINUTESPDFTEST;
Name Null? Type
ACDATE DATE
TYPES VARCHAR2(10)
here i have tried the following 2 queries,but i could not get the correct result
select types,seqno,acdate from ACMINUTESPDFTEST where acdate like to_date('NOV','MON');
or
select types,seqno,acdate from ACMINUTESPDFTEST where acdate = to_date('NOV','MON');
(for both the query the output is same)
TYPES ACDATE
PINK 01-NOV-10
but the table having following data:
TYPES ACDATE
PINK 14-NOV-10
WHITE 15-NOV-10
PINK 01-NOV-10
Any suggestion why i could not get correct result.

Answer 1

bharathit wrote:
Thanks for toon and divya...it solved my problem and my question how will you select between two months..
select types,acdate from ACMINUTESPDFTEST where to_char(acdate,'MON') >= 'SEP' AND to_char(acdate,'MON') <= 'OCT';
and i got
no rows selected
Edited by: bharathit on Nov 2, 2010 10:37 PMIf you're interested in finding dates in a range of months regardless of the year then try this:
select ...
from   ...
where  to_number(to_char(date_column,'MM')) Between 9 And 10;You could also do something like:
select ...
from   ...
where  to_number(to_char(date_column,'MM')) In (1,4,7,10);If you are interested in dates in a range of months in a particular year however, use something like this:
select ...
from   ...
where  date_column >= date '2010-09-01' and
       date_column < date '2010-11-01' and