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Good luck!

I would advise you to upgrade your SQL Developer first. Version 4.0.1 is quite old.

Hi Jeff,

Unfortunately this is not up to me. Company rules.

For every update we need to get in touch with the IT department and that takes ages.

Any hints/tips to help me with my task?

Regards,

George

This is not a SQL Dev question, but more a SQL question, the SQL language, not the SQL Dev product. This might be a better space for this question:

19:00 hours yesterday is midnight today minus 5 hours. So this gives me 19:00 yesterday: TRUNC(sysdate)-5/24 and an example is here:

SQL> SELECT to_char(sysdate,'MM/DD HH24:MI') AS curr_time,

  2  to_char(trunc(sysdate)-5/24,'MM/DD HH24:MI') as yesterday_1900

  3  FROM dual;

CURR_TIME  YESTERDAY_1

----------- -----------

10/10 09:26 10/09 19:00

that works because there are 24 hours in a day and 5 hours is 5/24.

If you want 23:59 more than 19:00 yesterday, you just add that much of a day. In this case, there are 1440 minutes in day and i want to add 1/1440:

SQL> SELECT to_char(sysdate,'MM/DD HH24:MI') AS curr_time,

  2  to_char(TRUNC(sysdate)-5/24,'MM/DD HH24:MI') AS yesterday_1900,

  3  to_char(TRUNC(sysdate)-5/24+1-1/1440,'MM/DD HH24:MI') AS today_1859

  4  from dual;

CURR_TIME   YESTERDAY_1 TODAY_1859

----------- ----------- -----------

10/10 09:31 10/09 19:00 10/10 18:59

Cheers,
Brian

Not on this forum. And if you post in on the forum you're not likely to get much help either, not without a lot more details. Like, what your table/data looks like. You should also try to post your best attempt at the SQL first. No one there is going to be motivated to write it for you.

As for your IT department - I don't want you to get in trouble with them. But, there is no installer here. Just grab the zip, unzip it to your desktop, and go. Otherwise you're on yesterday's tech, if yesterday was 2013.

Thanks a lot Jeff!

This query will be added in a report that get's refreshed on a daily basis but at different hours so can't use sysdate - 1.

So use 'TRUNC(sysdate) - 1'.

If you need more help mark this thread ANSWERED and repost the question in the sql and pl/sql forum.