Oracle® Database SQL Reference 10g Release 1 (10.1) Part Number B10759-01 |
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TO_YMINTERVAL
converts a character string of CHAR
, VARCHAR2
, NCHAR
, or NVARCHAR2
datatype to an INTERVAL
YEAR
TO
MONTH
type, where char
is the character string to be converted.
The following example calculates for each employee in the sample hr.employees
table a date one year two months after the hire date:
SELECT hire_date, hire_date + TO_YMINTERVAL('01-02') "14 months" FROM employees; HIRE_DATE 14 months --------- --------- 17-JUN-87 17-AUG-88 21-SEP-89 21-NOV-90 13-JAN-93 13-MAR-94 03-JAN-90 03-MAR-91 21-MAY-91 21-JUL-92 . . .