On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Williams, Travis L, NPONS wrote:
> If I have a date/time column using timestamp.. how can I manipulate the date/time easily.. like take the date/time
andadd 7 days to it and get the correct date.. or subtract 5 days.. or anything like that.. I can do it all in perl
(whichI have done in the past).. but I hate dealing with month/year roll overs..
Assuming you have a date field, you should be able to do something like
this:
select datefield + 7 from table where id=1;
to get the date plus 7 days.
I tested it this time, and it seems to work in 7.2.3 as well as 7.3 beta.
