From: zin1@cox.net   
      
   "Solomon Grundy"  wrote in message   
   news:6ad4e542.0402271226.6f8d8e63@posting.google.com...   
   > Select trunc(sysdate,'MM')   
   > from dual   
   > of course gives me the first day of the month, may I ask what the   
   > query is to find the first saturday of the month?   
      
      This appears to work for me:   
      
          trunc(to_date(year||month),'D')+6 from dual   
      
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