SELECT DATEFORMAT( CAST ( ‘1987/02/19’ AS DATE ), ‘Mmm Dd, yyyy’ ) FROM iq_ dummy Usage. The datetime-expression to convert must be a date, time, or timestamp data type, but can also be a CHAR or VARCHAR character string. If the date is a character string, Sybase IQ implicitly converts the character string to date, time, or timestamp data type, so an explicit cast, as in the example above, is.
8/31/2003 · SELECT DATEDIFF( day, ‘2003/08/03 14:00’, ‘2003/08/08 14:00’ ) FROM iq_ dummy When you use month as the date part, DATEDIFF returns the number of first-of-the-months between two dates, including the second date but not the first. For example, both.
SELECT SUBSTRING ( ‘back yard’, 1 , 4 ) FROM iq_ dummy The following statement returns yard: SELECT SUBSTR ( ‘back yard’, -1 , -4 ) FROM iq_ dummy The following statement returns 0x2233: SELECT SUBSTR ( 0x112233445566, 2, 2 ) FROM iq_ dummy Usage. If length is specified, the substring is restricted to that length.
SELECT RIGHT( ‘chocolate’, 5 ) FROM iq_ dummy Usage. If the string contains multibyte characters, and the proper collation is being used, the number of bytes returned might be greater than the specified number of characters.
SELECT REPLACE( ‘abc.def.abc.ghi’, ‘abc’, ‘xx’ ) FROM iq_ dummy The following statement generates a result set containing ALTER PROCEDURE statements which, when executed, repair stored procedures that reference a table that has been renamed. (To be useful, the table name must be unique.), This problem was confirmed to be reproduced in all later versions of Sybase IQ 12.4.3. Query1: Query should be NULL as val2, but val2 is returned as ‘2’—–(DBA)> select main.val1,sub.val2 from (select 1 as val1 from iq_ dummy where 0=0) main left outer join ( select 2 as val2 from iq_ dummy where 1=0 ) sub on 0=0 val1 val2—–
