How to query for a specific day of the month in Oracle

Question

Trying to automate a query that will pull data for the current month where the day of the month (in the date field) is >= the 15th. Is this possible? If so, what is the syntax t

Answer 1

This will allow you to use any indexes you have on your date_field column:

SELECT *
FROM   table_name
WHERE  date_field >= TRUNC( SYSDATE, 'MM' ) + INTERVAL '14' DAY
AND    date_field <  ADD_MONTHS( TRUNC( SYSDATE, 'MM' ), 1 );