Re: How to calculate a person's age?

Yes. Several of them. Judging by the question I'd say you have a lot of reading of to do. What interface will you be using (4gl, ESQL/C, New Era, etc) ? Eric R. Gavin wrote: } I'm very new to Informix (in fact, I haven't even used it) but I've used MS } Access and Oracle7 before, and both of those databases provide a built-in } function that allows you to "subtract" one data from the other and return } the result in different measures of time (days, months, years) } } Does Informix offer a similar function? } } Eric