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QUESTION POSED ON: 09 December 2008
I'm working with an Oracle table and I'm trying to separate out old records from the table. For example, I have a table named employee where columns are emp_code and emp_name. Suppose that this table has been functioning for seven years and now I want to separate the records which are either insert or update before 2005.

In summary, I want to find which data is before 2005 and which is after 2005. How can I accomplish this?


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The difficulty will be in determining which records were added before 2005 and which ones occurred after that date. By default, Oracle does not keep track of this information for you. Is there some column value that can help with this determination like HIRE_DATE? If not, you won't be able to make this determination.


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