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venkatnaveen
Obsidian | Level 7

How can we calculate difference in days of two dates in teradara? Note- we cannot use intck function in teradata

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DBailey
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

I think you can subtract dates in Teradata to get # days difference.  If the data are timestamps, you might need to cast as date before subtracting.

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

All database or quasi-database (ie Excel) systems store dates as numbers. Dates are typically stored as # of days from a given offset (1 Jan 1960 in SAS, 31 Dec 1899 in LibreOffice Calc/Excel), timestamps as # of seconds from the same offset.

So if you have real date values, simple subtracting will work, if you have timestamps, int(value1/86400) - int(value2/86400) will do the trick.

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