PostgreSQL DATEADD() Equivalent

Updated 20 April 2024 to include the date_add() function.

SQL Server has its DATEADD() function that adds an interval to a date value. MySQL’s DATE_ADD() and ADDDATE() for does the same thing, as does MariaDB’s DATE_ADD() and ADDDATE(). SQLite has a DATE() function that also provides the option of adding an interval to a given date.

Prior to version 16, PostgreSQL didn’t have a DATEADD() or equivalent function. But with PostgreSQL 16 came with the introduction of the date_add() function, which allows us to add an interval to a timestamp with time zone.

We can also add and subtract values from dates with date/time operators such as + and -.

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Find All Non-Numeric Values in a Column in Oracle

If you ever encounter a character column that should be a numeric column, there’s always a possibility that it contains non-numeric data that you don’t know about.

In Oracle Database, you can run a query like the following to return non-numeric data from the column.

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Fix Error “ORA-01790: expression must have same datatype as corresponding expression”

If you’re getting the error “ORA-01790: expression must have same datatype as corresponding expression” in Oracle Database, it’s probably because you’re using an operator such as UNION, INTERSECT, or EXCEPT to run a compound query, but the columns returned by each query use different data type groups.

To fix this issue, you’ll need to ensure that each column returned by the second query uses the same data type group as the corresponding column in the first query.

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