Question

I have a query that runs multiple times a day, the issue though is we want the query to only return result when it’s run at certain times. So for this example I only want records to be returned when the query is run during the 8am hour. I thought this might work

case
    when to_char(sysdate,'HH24') = '08' then
        select
            *
        from
            tablename
end

And indeed it does during the 8am hour, but outside of that it errors rather than returning no records.

Any ideas?

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Okay well that was dumb of me. I was WAY over thinking it. I was stuck on having to use a if then sort of condition. Time for more coffee.

Answer 1

Perhaps:

    select
        *
    from
        tablename
    where 
        to_char(sysdate,'HH24') = '08';