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Hello all.

I am currently migrating our product from SQL SERVER to ORACLE and have the following issue.
Basically I'm just trying to get the year week number for a given date but I'm having trouble with Oracle as it seems to think that the weeks run from Thursday to Thursday?. I presume this is something to do with the fact that the first day of the year was Thursday?
e.g.

SQL SERVER:
select DATEPART(wk, '2009-10-24') as Sat -- 43 - correct
select DATEPART(wk, '2009-10-25') as Sun -- 44 - correct
select DATEPART(wk, '2009-10-26') as Mon -- 44 - correct
select DATEPART(wk, '2009-10-27') as Tue -- 44 - correct
select DATEPART(wk, '2009-10-28') as Wed -- 44 - correct
select DATEPART(wk, '2009-10-29') as Thu -- 44 - correct
select DATEPART(wk, '2009-10-30') as Fri -- 44 - correct
select DATEPART(wk, '2009-10-31') as Sat -- 44 - correct
select DATEPART(wk, '2009-11-1') as Sun -- 45 - correct
select DATEPART(wk, '2009-11-2') as Mon -- 45 - correct
select DATEPART(wk, '2009-11-3') as Tue -- 45 - correct
select DATEPART(wk, '2009-11-4') as Wed -- 45 - correct
select DATEPART(wk, '2009-11-5') as Thu -- 45 - correct

ORACLE:
SELECT to_char(to_date('24-OCT-2009'), 'ww') as Sat from dual; -- 43 correct
SELECT to_char(to_date('25-OCT-2009'), 'ww') as Sun from dual; -- 43 incorrect - should be 44
SELECT to_char(to_date('26-OCT-2009'), 'ww') as Mon from dual; -- 43 incorrect - should be 44
SELECT to_char(to_date('27-OCT-2009'), 'ww') as Tue from dual; -- 43 incorrect - should be 44
SELECT to_char(to_date('28-OCT-2009'), 'ww') as Wed from dual; -- 43 incorrect - should be 44
SELECT to_char(to_date('29-OCT-2009'), 'ww') as Thu from dual; -- 44 correct
SELECT to_char(to_date('30-OCT-2009'), 'ww') as Fri from dual; -- 44 correct
SELECT to_char(to_date('31-OCT-2009'), 'ww') as Sat from dual; -- 44 correct
SELECT to_char(to_date('1-NOV-2009'), 'ww') as Sun from dual; -- 44 incorrect - should be 45
SELECT to_char(to_date('2-NOV-2009'), 'ww') as Mon from dual; -- 44 incorrect - should be 45
SELECT to_char(to_date('3-NOV-2009'), 'ww') as Tue from dual; -- 44 incorrect - should be 45
SELECT to_char(to_date('4-NOV-2009'), 'ww') as Wed from dual; -- 44 incorrect - should be 45
SELECT to_char(to_date('5-NOV-2009'), 'ww') as Thu from dual; -- 45 correct

Now I don't want to get into a discussion with regard to locales etc - in my world (and it seems SQL SERVER's) the first day of the week is Sunday and the last Saturday.

Is there some NLS_? setting or something that I'm missing?

thanks for any help on this.

Andy