Many (most? nearly all?) SQL dialects have a way to perform this type of function: date_add( MyDate, MyInterval )
I've been through all of the docs, but I cannot find this functionality in Ingres. My immediate goal is to get "MyDate plus 3 months". Does anyone know if there is a simple way to do this that I'm missing?
Note: I realize that it's possible to achieve this with existing SQL. But it will involve:
- extract the month from my date
- add 3 to this number
- extract the day and year from my date
- use the new day, month, year to create a new date
- But I also need to test to see if I cross a year boundary, so there will be a CASE statement as well
That's an awful lot of SQL for something that's so simple in Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and all the others I can think of. It makes me hopeful that I'm somehow missing a much simpler alternative.