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I need a function in Oracle like this.

When i giving a parameter a simple date. Then function should getting me last day of the previous month.

Example: 

FunctionName(10.02.2011) Result should be 31.01.2011

FunctionName(21.03.2011) Result should be 28.02.2011

FunctionName(31.07.2011) Result should be 30.06.2011 (Even date is last day of month)

How can i do that? By the way, i never use Oracle .

demongolem
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SELECT LAST_DAY(ADD_MONTHS(yourdate,-1))
Jon Heller
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Lamak
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As an alternative to the other answers here, you can also find the last day of the previous month by getting the day before the first day of this month

SELECT trunc(your_date, 'MM')-1 as new_date from your_table

I would probably still recommend using last_day(add_months(xxx,-1)) but just showing an alternative.

Mike Meyers
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select LAST_DAY(ADD_MONTHS(sysdate, -1)) from dual;

format resulting date as you like (I'll leave that one for you ;)

tbone
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With this you can also get the last BUSINESS DAY of the previous month, or any other month changing the -1.

SELECT (trunc(LAST_DAY(ADD_MONTHS(sysdate,-1)), 'iw') + 4) from dual
LEBRO
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