Re: help with to_date and to_char

There might be a better way, but this should do what you want. And I 
think that you can safely replace '05' with when_month.

select to_char( to_date( '05' || '/' || to_char( current_date, 
'DD/YYYY' ), 'MM/DD/YYYY' ), 'MON' );

-tfo

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On Oct 12, 2004, at 7:20 PM, Lori wrote:

> Im trying to do something very simple
> I have a field called when_month (integer )
> so I want to get the month name for the integer
>
> this comes close to what I want
> update mytable set myfield=to_char(current_timestamp,'MON');
>
> the result is myfield is set to OCT
> which is close to what I want but when I try to use a variable
> update mytable set myfield=to_char(when_month,'MON');
> or a char with value of '05' or '5'
> update mytable set myfield=to_char('05','MON');
> get error:
> update mytable set myfield=to_date(when_month,'MON');
> update mytable set myfield=to_char('05','MON');
> as well as
> update mytable set full_month= to_date('01/'05'/2004','DDMONYYYY');
> all get errors
>
> Please can anyone help?
>
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