comment on

select ... from table where table.day_in_month = to_number(to_char(sysdate,'dd'))

SELECT ...
  FROM table
 WHERE DAYOFMONTH( NOW() ) = table.day_in_month
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Your RDBMS should provide you with sufficient functions so as to make this unnecessary. And, though I don't have the reference in front of me, I'm pretty sure that Oracle does, just like MySQL and PostgreSQL both do.

Your second example is an optimization. Those are deliberate breakings of good practices (that reduce developer time) in order to gain in some other area (such as processor time). It's the classic tradeoff.

My criteria for good software:

Does it work?
Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^3: Typeless Relational Database by dragonchild
in thread Typeless Relational Database by tomazos

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