Re: [SQL] returning the current date in a SQL query

Cool, thanks for that information.  This was not exactly what I was
intending, but I can modify my query to do this.  Basically I just wanted
to ALWAYS see '[unknown]' and 'pending' on a result from a query that
simply limited the range of dates in tblproject.  But this does it
perfectly / and better!

Thanks again!
-Walt

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Dimitri wrote:

> I think you have to play with UNION:
>
> select ... , project_date from tblprojects where title not in ( '[unknown]',
> 'pending' )
> UNION ALL
> select ... , 'now'::datetime from tblprojects where title = '[unknown]'
> UNION ALL
> select ... , 'now'::datetime from tblprojects where title = 'pending';
>
> It'll be more elegant if you create a VIEW with this query, but
> for the moment UNION is not available in VIEWs...
>
> Hope it helps...
> (dim)
>
> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, you wrote:
> >I have a table (tblprojects) that stores the current projects in our
> >facility.  I want to be able to have two of the records "[unknown]" and
> >"pending"  (the project titles) always return the current date- basically
> >overwriting the date field stored in the table.
> >
> >I need this because I am sorting the projects in a 'combo box' (in MS
> >Access) by dates, for example today, this week, last week, this month,
> >last month, etc.  But I want the "[unknown]" and "pending" projects to
> >ALWAYS appear in the result of the query.
> >
> >Is this possible?  Do I have to set the date field of the table to
> >something like a function?
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any help!
> >
> >Walt
> >
> >P.S. my date field is of type "datetime"
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>  Dimitri KRAVTCHUK  (dim)           Sun Microsystems
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