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Subtracting from a date

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miked1978
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Posted - 2009-01-13 : 12:55:09

I have a column named Date in my table which shows varoius Sundays (ex: 1/11/2009)but I want to subtract 6 days from it to show the previous Monday. So I want 1/11/2009 to change to 1/05/2009 and so forth.

Is there and update statement or and alter statement I can use?

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2009-01-13 : 12:57:17

yup.just use


UPDATE Table
SET Date=Date-6

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2009-01-13 : 12:58:00

or even dateadd


UPDATE Table
SET Date=DATEADD(dd,-6,Date)

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