Re^2: How do you remember the number of days in each month?

[chacham]

About the same in Oracle

SQL> SELECT
  2     LEVEL Month,
  3     TO_CHAR(LAST_DAY(TO_DATE(LEVEL  || '/1/' ||
  4     TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'YYYY'), 'MM/DD/YYYY')),'DD') Days
  5  FROM
  6     Dual
  7  CONNECT BY
  8     LEVEL <= 12;

     MONTH DA
---------- --
         1 31
         2 28
         3 31
         4 30
         5 31
         6 30
         7 31
         8 31
         9 30
        10 31
        11 30
        12 31

12 rows selected.

After the update in the parent, i realized this too could be shortened:

SELECT
    TO_CHAR(ADD_MONTHS(TO_DATE('1', 'DDD'), LEVEL) - 1, 'DD')
FROM
    Dual
CONNECT BY
    LEVEL < 13;

But, if we can cheat and specify the year, using the ANSI date literal is slightly shorter:

SELECT
    TO_CHAR(ADD_MONTHS(DATE '2014-1-1', LEVEL) - 1, 'DD')
FROM
    Dual
CONNECT BY
    LEVEL < 13;

In a race with the parent to find the shortest SQL. :) So far we went with a literal data (which locks it to 2014), but he outdid me by removing the '20' from the date. Touché!

Though, not to be outdone, we'll find something shorter (as of update 4) and even go back to working for every year:

SELECT TO_CHAR(LAST_DAY(TO_DATE(LEVEL,'MM')),'DD')FROM Dual CONNECT BY
+ LEVEL<13;

Saved 3 characters. :)

If we can start from December, we'll save 8 more characters (for a total of 11):

SELECT TO_CHAR(TO_DATE(LEVEL,'MM')-1,'DD')FROM Dual CONNECT BY LEVEL<13;