I want to subtract "X" days and "X" minutes from sysdate, where the days and minutes are an integer as input parameter. For instance, 10 days and 5 minutes.
I found many examples to subtract either minutes or hours but not a combination of days and minutes.
select sysdate - 5 / 24 / 60 from dual -- will retrieve sysdate minus 5 minutes.
--What about the days?
Thank you!
Use an interval literal:
SELECT SYSDATE - INTERVAL '10 00:05' DAY(2) TO MINUTE
FROM DUAL
Or:
SELECT SYSDATE - INTERVAL '10' DAY - INTERVAL '5' MINUTE
FROM DUAL
Or just use arithmetic:
SELECT SYSDATE - 10 /* Days */ - 5 / 24 /60 /* Minutes */
FROM DUAL
Or use NUMTODSINTERVAL
:
SELECT SYSDATE - NUMTODSINTERVAL( 10, 'DAY' ) - NUMTODSINTERVAL( 5, 'MINUTE' )
FROM DUAL