11.21 'TOMORROW'

Available inDSQL, PSQL, ESQL

TypeCHAR(8)

'TOMORROW' is not a variable, but a string literal. It is, however, special in the sense that when you CAST() it to a date/time type, you will get the date of the next day. See also Section 11.20, ‘TODAY’.

Examples

  1. select 'Tomorrow' from rdb$database
  2. -- returns 'Tomorrow'
  3. select cast('Tomorrow' as date) from rdb$database
  4. -- returns e.g. 2011-10-04
  5. select cast('TOMORROW' as timestamp) from rdb$database
  6. -- returns e.g. 2011-10-04 00:00:00.0000