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    Filtering weekend days

    Hi,

    I am looking for a way to identify all Saturdays and Sundays in a date list to exclude them in a WHERE-clause.

    The final SELECT should look like:

    SELECT ... FROM data WHERE (date no saturday or sunday)



    Can anybody provide a hint on this subject?

    Thanks,
    andreas

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    where to_char(date, 'D', nls_territory='SPAIN') not in (6, 7)

    there are probably better ways

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    U cud use TRUNC Fn..
    funky...

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    Originally posted by abhaysk
    U cud use TRUNC Fn..
    I often do, but not at the weekends.
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    well if you use trunc your code will depend on NLS_LANG setting doesnt it?

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    One way round NLS settings could be
    mod(trunc(mydate)-to_date('01-01-1900','DD-MM-YYYY'),7) not in (5,6)
    It's a fudge, and won't work for dates before 1900. No doubt someone can dress it up . . . .

    pando's code is more transparent and works for all dates. It may also be neat start for other definitions of a weekend (e.g. Muslim Thu & Fri).
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    SELECT ...
    FROM data
    WHERE TO_CHAR(date_col,'Dy') NOT IN ('Sat','Sun');

    Obviously you'll have to change this if NLS isn't English language.

    Looking back - very similar to Pando's!

    I work with (near??) a VB developer who's created a table in one of our Oracle Databases that stores the date of every weekend for the next 5 years to help him with a similar problem. Refused to use the 'Dy' solution as he'd have to change his code.

    Last edited by JMac; 05-01-2003 at 11:10 AM.

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    war story: I could not find out how to do exponentiation in AS/400 Query - so I created a table of powers of 10
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    Originally posted by DaPi
    war story: I could not find out how to do exponentiation in AS/400 Query - so I created a table of powers of 10
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