[MonetDB-users] converting strings to dates?

In Oracle I can do the following: select * from table where timestampcol BETWEEN to_date('01/01/07', 'MM/DD/RR') AND to_date('12/31'/07'), 'MM/DD/RR') It's not clear that this is possible in monetdb. There's the EXTRACT function which pulls a numeric value (month, day or year) from a string representing a timestamp, but I can't see how to get a timestamp/date object out? -matt