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>>>Where do you get such numbers? In Excel?
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>>For indexing, I created a numeric field called mindex and stuffed it with all the date data: year, month, day, hour, minutes, like: 201211011711
>>Now, when I try to use mindex in an SQL expression, if I want to strip off the hours or minutes, I first have to do a
>>str(mindex) and that returns in scientific notation because
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>>If nExpression has Numeric or Float type, and nLength is less than the number of digits in nExpression, and , STR( ) returns a value using scientific notation.
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>You can use
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>LEFT(CAST mIndex as C(12)), 10) as YearMonthDayHour
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>Or just use the second parameter in STR, e.g.
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>STR(mIndex, 12)
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>Also, if you want your number to remain number, but just without minutes part, use
LEFT(CAST (mIndex as C(12)), 10); Thanks
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>floor(mIndex / 100) or CAST(mIndex/100 as I)
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