Question

I’m new to Oracle 11g & I have a question about a query.

I have a table dummy which has created_date column of type Date.

I want a query which will return all the records where created_date + 7 days is less than today’s date.

What type of query in Oracle 11g accomplishes this?

Answer 1

Oracle lets you use + for date arithmetic, so

where table.created_date >= sysdate
and table.created_date < sysdate + 7

will find rows between exactly now and exactly now plus 7 days.

If you don’t want to include the time component, you can use the trunc() function

where trunc(table.created_date) >= trunc(sysdate)
and trunc(table.created_date) < trunc(sysdate) + 7