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Old May 30th, 2004, 02:25 AM
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Subtracting dates

Hello everyone. Simple question. How do you subtract dates? I created the following statement:

Code:
Select Employee_ID, (Clock_Out_Date - Clock_In_Date) days
From Employee;


This statement works fine but when I try to do something like this:

Code:
Select Employee_ID, (Clock_Out_Date - Clock_In_Date) days
From Employee
Where days > 11;


I get a message that it can't find the column and it won't work. What I really want to do though is find the longest date (or max). Anyone have suggestions?

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Select Employee_ID, (Clock_Out_Date - Clock_In_Date) AS days
From Employee

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That doesn't really do anything. The "As" is just used to give it an alias. Even then the As is not required.

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Misread the question

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Select Employee_ID, (Clock_Out_Date - Clock_In_Date) days
From Employee
Where (Clock_Out_Date - Clock_In_Date) > 11;




You can't use the Alias in Where, group by or order by

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