I have been trying for a while now to get a similar method to GETDATE()
in DB2 for i. So far I have found the following:
current date
current timestamp
current time
Would it be possible for me to:
select specific, columns
from table
where datefield = current date - 1 day
Is this the most efficient way or is there some way I perhaps haven't found yet?
EDIT:
I currently have this:
WHERE datefield = - days(date('2013-10-28'))
although this isn't helpful as I will need to edit it every day the query runs.
Have now come to this:
WHERE datefield = VARCHAR_FORMAT(CURRENT TIMESTAMP, 'YYYYMMDD') - 1
Except this will not work on the first day of the month as 1 - 1 = 0 and there is no day 0 in a month...
The DATE function returns a date that is derived from a value. The schema is SYSIBM. The argument must be an expression that returns one of the following built-in data types: a date, a timestamp, a character string, a graphic string, or any numeric data type.
SYSDATE is a synonym for CURRENT TIMESTAMP when Db2-server is running on Linux/Unix/Windows, or on Z/OS.
The GETDATE() function returns the current database system date and time, in a 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss. mmm' format.
This will give you yesterday's date:
SELECT CURRENT DATE - 1 DAY FROM sysibm.sysdummy1
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