On Apr 30, 9:29 am, Charles Hooper <hooperc2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Apr 30, 9:49 am, deepakp <deepak10...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have an Oracle table that has 2 Date fields..i.e. the data type -
> > DATE
>
> > Field 1: START_DATE sample value "2008-04-04 12:00:00";
> > Field 2: END_DATE sample value "2008-04-07 05:46:07";
>
> > If I subtract one date from another, I can get the time difference.
>
> > Round((END_DATE - START_DATE), 4) AS TOTAL_DAYS
>
> > The above results in 3.7404
>
> > Between 2008-04-04 and 2008-04-07, there is Saturday and Sunday which
> > are 2008-04-05 and 2008-04-06.
> > I would like them to be excluded.
>
> > Hence, the resultant that I'm looking for should be 1.7404 -- not
> > 3.7404
>
> > Is there a simple way to get the desired solution?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Deepak
>
> Have you tried a Google search of the Usenet archives, or even a
> regular Google search?http://groups.google.com/group/comp....le.com+weekend...
>
> Charles Hooper
> IT Manager/Oracle DBA
> K&M Machine-Fabricating, Inc.

Thank you for your response. I did search online and could not find
any that showed time difference between. The examples I found were
similar to the ones you pasted..which show count of days between 2
dates. That is not what I'm looking for. Instead, I'm looking for time
difference excluding weekends. The closest match I found in online
search was http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/e...294550,00.html

Kind Regards,
Deepak