Re: [Q] Frusturating SQL question
Posted in 1996
Try
where lastmod = CURRENT (YEAR TO MINUTE)
It should work! Today is only used with Date fields not datetime!
> I hope someone can help me out of this frustaration. I have a > tbale
in Informix 5.01 that hold information for visitors to our > site. I need
to print out a simple report which shows the number > of visitors and
their time of arrival at midnight everday. A > simple cron job unloads my
query into an ascii file and with a > little awk manipulation I print the
file to the remote site.
> > Unfortunately, I can't get my SIMPLE query to work. My date > column
is LASTMOD (DATETIME YEAR TO MINUTE) and I need to get > data for just
one day. My query is
> > Select lname, fname, vendor, status, lastmod
> from visitors
> where lastmod = TODAY (YEAR TO MINUTE)
> order by 3,2,1> > This does not work, obviously. But what does work? Any ideas?
> > I would be gald of any help. > Saqib
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