convert decimal to date during where clause [duplicate] - sql

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Convert DB2 SQL Decimal to DATE
I have a db2 database and I want to convert a decimal to a date during the where clause in a select statement.
The decimal date could be 12 or 13 characters long depending on the month.
12 characters:
1,241,999.00 should become: 1999/1/24
13 Characters:
12,241,999.00 should become: 1999/12/24
The column name is DECIMALCOLUMN:
Select * from table1 WHERE
cast(replace(convert,DECIMALCOLUMN,date)) = #date

Answer 1

I see: You want some way of rearranging the digits of a number to become a date. It looks like the encoding is [m]mddyyyy. (Why isn't that a date datatype in the database?)
The number needs to be converted to a string and then substrings arranged and converted to a date. Given the complexities here, a conversion function should be written in lieu of the field being altered to be a proper datatype. Something like this should do it (untested, no access to db2):
create function decimaldate(decdate DECIMAL)
returns DATE
return
with tmp (dstr) as
(
select substr(digits (decdate),8)
from sysibm.sysdummy1
)
select
date (substr(dstr,4,4) || '-' ||
substr(dstr,1,2) || '-' ||
substr(dstr,3,2)
)
from tmp
This converts the number to a string, reformats the string as yyyy-mm-dd and converts to a date. (I used this as a basis.)
So the solution to the original question is simply to write:
SELECT *
FROM table1
WHERE decimaldate(DECIMALCOLUMN) = #date
With such a screwy way of encoding the date in the database, having the function always available should prove invaluable.