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   Chris Cowles to Mark D Powell   
   Re: [newbie] select records, update with   
   04 Aug 04 19:19:04   
   
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   Thought so. Thanks for the clarification.   
      
   "Mark D Powell"  wrote in message   
      
   > > Chris, it would depend on how the procedure was written.  If it was   
   > > written to be called with a date then you would need create a valid   
   > > date variable using to_char('date','format').  If the procedure   
   > > expects a character string that it will convert to a date then you   
   > > pass the expected character string format.   
   > >   
   > > HTH -- Mark D Powell --   
   >   
   > Whoops.  Make that to_date('date','format') to conver the character string   
   to date.   
   >   
   > -- Mark --   
      
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