NUMTOYMINTERVAL

Syntax

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Purpose

NUMTOYMINTERVAL converts number n to an INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH literal. The argument n can be any NUMBER value or an expression that can be implicitly converted to a NUMBER value. The argument interval_unit can be of CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, or NVARCHAR2 data type. The value for interval_unit specifies the unit of n and must resolve to one of the following string values:

• 'YEAR'

• 'MONTH'

interval_unit is case insensitive. Leading and trailing values within the parentheses are ignored. By default, the precision of the return is 9.

See Also:

Table 2-10, "Implicit Type Conversion Matrix" for more information on implicit conversion

Examples

The following example uses NUMTOYMINTERVAL in a SUM analytic function to calculate, for each employee, the total salary of employees hired in the past one year from his or her hire date. Refer to "Analytic Functions" for more information on the syntax of the analytic functions.

SELECT last_name, hire_date, salary,
       SUM(salary) OVER (ORDER BY hire_date 
       RANGE NUMTOYMINTERVAL(1,'year') PRECEDING) AS t_sal 
  FROM employees
  ORDER BY last_name, hire_date;

LAST_NAME                 HIRE_DATE     SALARY      T_SAL
------------------------- --------- ---------- ----------
Abel                      11-MAY-04      11000      90300
Ande                      24-MAR-08       6400     112500
Atkinson                  30-OCT-05       2800     177000
Austin                    25-JUN-05       4800     134700
. . .
Walsh                     24-APR-06       3100     186200
Weiss                     18-JUL-04       8000      70900
Whalen                    17-SEP-03       4400      54000
Zlotkey                   29-JAN-08      10500     119000