HOWTO: Using a Date Filter in an Oracle Remote View

Last reviewed: May 15, 1997
Article ID: Q168594

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0a

SUMMARY

When using a date field as a filter criteria in a remote view to an Oracle table, the date value must be specified using the following format:

   'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS'

MORE INFORMATION

The following example filter criteria returns all records from the table where the date field contains a date later than January 1, 1996:

   Date_Field > '1996-01-01 00:00:00'

NOTE: The time portion of this date must be included. If the time is not needed, use 00:00:00 as the time portion of the datetime expression as in the above example.

Keywords : FxinteropDatabase kb3rdparty vfoxwin
Version : 5.0 5.0a
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto

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Last reviewed: May 15, 1997
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