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Calculating how many days are between two dates in DB2?

Asked 2012-03-02T18:40:05.533
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I need to get the difference in days between two dates in DB2. I tried a couple of different queries but nothing seems to be working. So basically what i need to get is something like this.

 SELECT DAYS (CURRENT DATE) - DAYS (DATE(CHDLM)) FROM CHCART00 WHERE CHSTAT = '05';

I know that if I remove CHDLM and specify a date like '2012-02-20' it works but I need to be able to run this against that field in the table. I also try this query that was given to me by a friend by is not working either.

 select days (current date) - days (date(select concat(concat(concat(concat(left(a2.chdlm,4),'-'),substr(a2.chdlm,4,2)),'-'),right(a2.chdlm,2))) from sysibm.sysdummy1 a1, chcart00 a2 where chstat = '05';

Please any help will be greatly appreciate it. Thanks

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values timestampdiff (16, char( 
    timestamp(current timestamp + 1 year + 2 month - 3 day)- 
    timestamp(current timestamp)))
1
=
422



values timestampdiff (16, char( 
    timestamp('2012-03-08-00.00.00')- 
    timestamp('2011-12-08-00.00.00')))
1
=
90

---------- EDIT BY galador

SELECT TIMESTAMPDIFF(16, CHAR(CURRENT TIMESTAMP - TIMESTAMP_FORMAT(CHDLM, 'YYYYMMDD'))
FROM CHCART00
WHERE CHSTAT = '05'

EDIT

As it has been pointed out by X-Zero, this function returns only an estimate. This is true. For accurate results I would use the following to get the difference in days between two dates a and b:

SELECT days (current date) - days (date(TIMESTAMP_FORMAT(CHDLM, 'YYYYMMDD')))
FROM CHCART00 
WHERE CHSTAT = '05';
answered 2012-03-02T18:56:43.990

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