As I indicated in my OP the query works in SQL Developer.

Yeah, it is common for DBs to allow you to silently treat a date or datetime as a string, so you often won't get any warning or error for saying "sometime LIKE somedate". But doing that just converts 'somedate' to a string, treats any resulting '%' characters (surely none) as wildcards, and then compares that to the stringification of 'sometime'. Is that what you wanted to do? If so, that is certainly a confusing way to accomplish it.

but there was no need to be so hostile about it!

I don't see where I could even be reasonably interpreted as "hostile" much less "so hostile". The closest I came to "hostile" was toward Oracle. Did you take that personally? Perhaps I should have been more like Dominus and instead said "You can't just make shit up, Retardo." At least that would've been rude. "Hostile" surely goes beyond "rude". I tried to find some examples of "hostile remarks" but every hit I checked just showed people being unwilling to even repeat them in quotes. I encourage you to not paint in your mind text-only remarks with such stark emotions so readily.

- tye        

In reply to Re^5: DBIx::Simple and Oracle dates (stuff) by tye
in thread DBIx::Simple and Oracle dates by Argel

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