Math functions for dates

Hello,
Have you ever used a math function for dates (MMDDYYYY) not just a number? I'm looking to send an email out based on date field. For example, if someone's contract expires on 1/1/2016, I'd like to send them out emails 30, 152, 212 and 335 days before that date. Right now, we have fields set up for those 30, 152, 212 and 335 days and would like to know if there's a math function that would automatically fill them in dynamically based on their contract exp. date.
Thanks for your help and suggestions.

rmabrey wrote:
I have the calculator working but I am having trouble figuring out thow to do a square root function, nth factorial, absolute value, and Fibonacci. java.lang.Math.sqrt()
nothing for factorial - write your own.
java.lang.Math.abs()
nothing for Fibonacci - write your own.
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Functions for date datatype

Dear ALL...
Someone know some function for query months, years, days from date columns....???
Example for MSSQL...select datepart(date collumn) from table....select month(date column) from table....etc
I´m studing Oracle alone to get a OCP (OCA first)......the bad thing...I Work with the MSSQL.. (to me, Oracle is the best RDBMS)...
Thks
Daniel

Hi Daniel,
Well I saw that you come from Brazil and as you are studying Oracle by yourself, take a look on my blog http://mportes.blogspot.com - There you're going to find a lot of technical stuff in Portuguese. For intance you might interest on this
http://mportes.blogspot.com/2005/11/trabalhando-com-intervalos-de-datas.html
About your question, you can start with
SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'Mon') from dual;
TO_
May
1 row selected.
SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'Month') from dual;
TO_CHAR(S
May
1 row selected.
SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'Month', 'nls_date_language=portuguese') from dual;
TO_CHAR(S
Maio
1 row selected.To find more information, I suggest you stop by
http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/functions180.htm#SQLRF06129
and try out http://tahiti.oracle.com there you will find all docs from Oracle (free).
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TRUNC function for DATE

Another thread from today made me think of the basics of TRUNC function used for DATEs. I am confused about what it acutally does.
This is what Oracle Documenations says about TRUNC function without format (like 'DD-MON-YY')
"If you omit fmt, then date is truncated to the nearest day" (Oracle 10Gr2 SQL reference, B14200-02)
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SYSDATE
06-DEC-2007 14:22:01
Query 2.
SQL> SELECT TRUNC(SYSDATE) FROM DUAL;
TRUNC(SYSDATE)
06-DEC-2007 00:00:00I have three questions
1)Since it 2:22 pm , shouldn't the result of TRUNC(SYSDATE) ie Query 2. be 7-Dec-2007 ?
2) What difference does TRUNC function make in the code apart from setting the time to 00:00:00?
3) Is it safer to add TRUNC for DATEs in the code?
SQL> select sysdate-1 from dual;
SYSDATE-1
05-DEC-2007 14:27:51
SQL> select trunc(sysdate) - 1 from dual;
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05-DEC-2007 00:00:00Added third question
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user609308

it's not a function that rounds up date's it purely truncates to the granularity that you want.
So TRUNC(sysdate) still returns a date datatype (which still contains a date and time portion) but the time portion is truncated i.e. cleared down to it's lowest limit.
Likewise if you TRUNC(sysdate,'YYYY') then it will truncate to the year and take months, days, hours, mins and secs down to their lowest limit hence giving you 1st January of that year with 00:00:00 as the time.
It's very simple really.

Function for dates

Hi Experts!
i want to calculate months b/w 2 dates , is there function for this . can i find days and year also .plz tell me .
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HAI TRY THIS
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The date literals I used are in the
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Our database is UTF8 enabled infact we are using AL32UTF8 encoding. When we are running the following query then the results are displayed in Japanese instead of English for the 'DAY' and 'DY' clause.
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DAY YEAR DY MON
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rmabrey wrote:
I have the calculator working but I am having trouble figuring out thow to do a square root function, nth factorial, absolute value, and Fibonacci. java.lang.Math.sqrt()
nothing for factorial - write your own.
java.lang.Math.abs()
nothing for Fibonacci - write your own.
%

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As David points out, if the two columns are stored as dates, then you do not need to convert them at all to compare them. The only possible issue may be the fact that processing_date has no time component and authorised_ts has a time component.
Given the following:
SQL> DESC t;
Name                                      Null?    Type
ID                                                 NUMBER
PROCESSING_DATE                                    DATE
AUTHORISED_TS                                      DATE
SQL> SELECT * FROM t;
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         9 05-Aug-2005 00:00:00 08-Aug-2005 11:29:47Note that the comparision does not depend on the display format of the date:
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