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Quick help on this line of my code in my oracle database. So, I have a to_char with sysdate. However, I want to change the sysdate to say Jul-2020 but for some reason it tells me invalid number. Can anyone help me solve this small issue? thanks for the help.
here is what I have:
Before:
to_char(sysdate, 'YYYY')
After:
to_char('Jul-2020', 'MM-YYYY'
The problem is first you have let the dB know "Jul-2020" is a date format so the correct line should be to_char(to_date('Jul-2020','Mon-yyyy'), 'MM-YYYY')
Something along these lines should work as long as you provide input dates as below. You just need to be consistent, meaning you can't do 2020-July without changing output format to YYYY-MM
select to_char(to_date('07-2020','MM-YYYY'),'MM-YYYY') from dual;
select to_char(to_date('July-2020','MM-YYYY'),'MM-YYYY') from dual;
If you want to be able to use both sysdate and hardcoded values inter-changeably, you can provide date in a specific format that works for sysdate and hardcoded date
select to_char(to_date(sysdate,'DD-MM-YYYY'),'MM-YYYY') from dual;
select to_char(to_date('01-07-2020','DD-MM-YYYY'),'MM-YYYY') from dual;
select to_char(to_date('01-July-2020','DD-MM-YYYY'),'MM-YYYY') from dual
I am getting invalid number error message while executing the below select statement.Can any one have an idea about the issue..Please let me know.
select TO_DATE(TO_CHAR('2015/01/22 00:00:00','YYYY/MM/DD'),'YYYY/MM/DD')
actually i want oracle standard date format without time stamp for this date '2015/01/22 00:00:00'
select to_date('2015/01/22 00:00:00','YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS') as dt
from dual
Fiddle - http://sqlfiddle.com/#!4/6a3a6/1/0
As an FYI, the Oracle DATE data type does include the time component (just not down to fractional seconds, as is the case with the TIMESTAMP data type).
If you are converting values and want to bring all the time values to zero you can use the trunc function like this (which changes 12:07:00 to 00:00:00):
select trunc(to_date('2015/01/22 12:07:00','YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS'),'DD') as dt_with_time_zerod
from dual
Fiddle - http://sqlfiddle.com/#!4/6a3a6/2/0
If the source is itself a date and you want to convert the date to a string in the Oracle default date format ('DD-MON-RR') you can achieve that by running:
select to_char(trunc(to_date('2015/01/22 12:07:00','YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS'),'DD'),'DD-MON-RR') as dt_with_time_zerod
from dual
Fiddle - http://sqlfiddle.com/#!4/6a3a6/3/0
If it's a date field, to_char without a mask will give you what you say you want.
actually i want oracle standard date format without time stamp for this date '2015/01/22 00:00:00'
I'm not sure what you mean by "Oracle standard date format." The format in which a date would appear would be based on your NLS settings (in particular, NLS_DATE_FORMAT). If you are just trying to format this string representing a date, then you might want something like the following:
SELECT TO_CHAR(TO_DATE('2015/01/22 00:00:00','YYYY/MM/DD HH:MI:SS'), 'YYYY/MM/DD')
FROM dual;
That is, you have the TO_CHAR() and TO_DATE() functions in the wrong order, and an incomplete date mask for the call to TO_DATE().
Try using date literals with the standard ISO 8601 format.
date '2015-01-22'
I suggest you not to give hour-minute-second if you do not want to show the time.
This is my simplest answer :
SELECT TO_DATE('2015/01/22','YYYY/MM/DD') FROM dual
I've seen a few answers to questions similar to mine but I cannot get them to work. I have several date fields in my query that return the date and time like such 7/1/2014 12:00:00 AM. Is there a way I can just have the fields show 7/1/2014?
SELECT DISTINCT
C.RECEIPTDATE,
(I.CLIENTID ||' - '||PO.CLIENTNAME) AS CLIENT,
D.INVOICEID,
D.SVCFROMDATE,
D.SVCTODATE,
D.SVCCODE
FROM M_EQP_ORDERS
WHERE.....
I basically would like to cut down the two date fields to the shorter date format minus the time.
Thanks in advance!
Just use the function TRUNC.
SELECT DISTINCT
TRUNC(C.RECEIPTDATE),
(I.CLIENTID ||' - '||PO.CLIENTNAME) AS CLIENT,
D.INVOICEID,
TRUNC(D.SVCFROMDATE),
TRUNC(D.SVCTODATE),
D.SVCCODE
FROM M_EQP_ORDERS
WHERE.....
Use to_char function:
SELECT DISTINCT
to_char(C.RECEIPTDATE,'DD/MM/YYYY'),
(I.CLIENTID ||' - '||PO.CLIENTNAME) AS CLIENT,
D.INVOICEID,
D.SVCFROMDATE,
D.SVCTODATE,
D.SVCCODE
FROM M_EQP_ORDERS
WHERE.....
DEPENDS on the data type.
If the column is DATE data type, then, as suggested already, TRUNC would do the job to display. But, if your locale-specific NLS date settings are different, then you will still see the time portion as midnight.
Else, you need to use TO_DATE with proper FORMAT and apply TRUNC to it.
update
If you only want to display, use TO_CHAR, else, if you have a filter in your WHERE clause, then remember TO_CHAR doesn't return DATE, it converts it into literal.
Try this:
SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'YYYY/MM/DD') dateonly, sysdate datetime from dual;
DATEONLY DATETIME
---------- -------------------
2014/09/26 2014-09-26 15:41:03
The Oracle date datatype always includes the time.
TRUNC will truncate the time to midnight, which you will need to do if you want to match the date parts of two datetimes. The time may still display, depending on how your client is configured, so use TO_CHAR with an appropriate format mask to display it whatever way you want.
SELECT DISTINCT
to_date(C.RECEIPTDATE,'DD/MM/YYYY'),
(I.CLIENTID ||' - '||PO.CLIENTNAME) AS CLIENT,
D.INVOICEID,
D.SVCFROMDATE,
D.SVCTODATE,
D.SVCCODE
FROM M_EQP_ORDERS
WHERE.....
I have a table as
create table Dummy (date_created date)
in oracle.I want to store date in 'dd-mon-yyyy' (12-dec-2010) format.
How should i do this.
Please help.
In Oracle a column created with the DATE datatype just stores the date. It doesn't have a particular format, it just stores the day, month, year, hour, minute, and second. You need to convert from whatever format you have using the TO_DATE function. If you have a text string with the date in 'dd-mon-yyyy' format and you want to put this date into your table you'd use something like
INSERT INTO DUMMY (DATE_CREATED)
VALUES (TO_DATE('01-FEB-2011', 'DD-MON-YYYY');
Going the other way (from DATE column value to character string) you'd use the TO_CHAR function. If you were retrieving a value from your table and wanted to convert it to 'DD-MON-YYYY' format you'd use something like
SELECT TO_CHAR(DATE_CREATED, 'DD-MON-YYYY')
FROM DUMMY;
Share and enjoy.
Use to_date() function. In your case, the syntax would be
insert into Dummy values (to_date('08-09-2010', 'dd-mm-yyyy'));
Here is a link to the detailed help.
The DATE datatype will store date and time information (century, year, month, day, hours, minutes, and seconds) in an internal format in the database. When you get it out of the database, you can choose to display it in whatever format you like.
This information is either created using implicit conversion from a string or explicitly using either the TO_DATE function or the ANSI date literal. If you look in the v$nls_parameters view, this will tell you what the NLS_DATE_FORMAT is which is generally used for the implicit conversion. This may often be defined as DD-MON-RR, which might be why the date will come out as 23-DEC-10 when the query select sysdate from dual is run. (Not entirely sure I'm right about the nls stuff. Correct me if I'm wrong.)
However, all the date information is available if you know how to get it. The query select to_char(sysdate, 'dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi:ss') from dual will return all the date fields.
Likewise, the insert statement shown below will create a row with a date value in it.
insert into dummy (date_created)
values (to_date('12-dec-2010 12:34:56', 'dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi:ss'))`
This data can then be retrieved.
select date_created from dummy
This will implicitly convert the date to a character string using the NLS_DATE_FORMAT, providing the output below.
DATE_CREA
---------
23-DEC-10
The full date information is available by explicitly converting the date to a character string.
select to_char(date_created, 'DD-MON-YYYY') as date_created from dummy;
select to_char(date_created, 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') as date_created
from dummy;
This will provide output in the format you require:
DATE_CREATE
-----------
23-DEC-2010
If you always use the TO_DATE and TO_CHAR functions to convert to/from a date datatype, then you will have fewer problems. Implicit conversion is useful but can cause some confusion or problems.
You can keep and eye here
http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/to_date.php
use to_date function to save a data with the format you need. I suggest to use SYSDATE updating table and when you need to read data from table use something like that:
dbms_output.put_line(TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS'));
to solve your problem use:
to_date('08/JAN/2010', 'DD/MON/YYYY')
Just use TRUNC(YourDate) if date have time part, it will be truncate time part. Oracle have not just 'DATE' type, 'DATE' always have time part.
However if you do not specify time - it will 00:00:00.
SELECT TRUNC(SYSDATE) from dual
Result:
23-12-2010
Oracle does not support DATE without time part.
You can make it always be an integer date by adding a CHECK constraint:
CREATE TABLE dummy (date_created date CHECK (date_created = TRUNC(date_created)))
, insert it in any format you want:
INSERT
INTO dummy (date_created)
VALUES (TO_DATE('23-DEC-2010', 'dd-mon-yyyy'))
and select it in any format you want:
SELECT TO_CHAR(date_created, 'dd-mon-yyyy')
FROM dummy
I need to find some records created in a range of quarters. For example, I'm looking for all records created between the 4th quarter of 2008 and the 1st quarter of 2010. I have this in my WHERE-clause:
...and r.record_create_date between to_date('2008 4','YYYY Q')
and to_date('2010 1','YYYY Q')
but Oracle says: ORA-01820: format code cannot appear in date input format. The Q is a valid date format symbol, so I'm not sure what's happened. Is this even a valid way to find values in between calender quarters, or is there a better way?
Also interesting, and possibly related, if I execute this:
select to_date('2009','YYYY') from dual;
The value displayed in my IDE is 2009-08-01. I would have expected 2009-08-04, since today is 2010-08-04.
This:
select to_date('2009 1','YYYY Q') from dual;
of course, fails.
(Oracle 10g)
Oracle says: ORA-01820: format code cannot appear in date input format. The Q is a valid date format symbol, so I'm not sure what's happened.
See the second column of table 2.15 at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/sql_elements004.htm#i34948. Not all format elements are allowed when converting to dates, timestamps, etc.
I recommend against using between for date range checks. People often will miss values within the ending day that the expect to be included. So I would translate:
and r.record_create_date between to_date('2008 4','YYYY Q')
and to_date('2010 1','YYYY Q')
To
and to_date('2008-10-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD') <= r.record_create_date
and record_create_date < to_date('2010-04-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD') -- < beginning of 2Q2010.
Someone asked the same question on OTN: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1081398&tstart=255
The crux of the issue is that you can not specify "Q" in the TO_DATE function.
Given that you're already specifying a portion of the date, why not provide the entire date? Mind too that to_date('2010 1','YYYY Q') would give you Jan 1st, 2010 when you really want March 31st, 2010... at a second to midnight.
Since the relationship between quarters to months is one-to-many, it doesn't make sense to do TO_DATE('2008 1', 'yyyy q'); what date should be returned? The first of the quarter, the end of the quarter, ...? (On the other hand, converting a date to a quarter - like TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'yyyy q') makes sense because a specific date only exists in one quarter.)
So, if you do want a query that looks for a date that falls between two quarters, you will have to "rolll your own" (explicitly stating the dates of the start/end of a quarter.)
As a side note, in case anyone is considering not using TO_DATE please do not use things like: WHERE date_value BETWEEN 'date string1' and 'date string2' without the TO_DATE function. It assumes a default date format and under certain situations can avoid potentially useful indexes altogether.
Below is one example where the same query can have a different result.
select sysdate from dual where sysdate between '1-Jan-10' and '31-Dec-10';
SYSDATE
---------
04-AUG-10
SQL> alter session set nls_date_format = 'YYYY-MM-DD';
Session altered.
SQL> select * from dual where sysdate between '1-Jan-10' and '31-Dec-10';
no rows selected
(Notice that in the second instance no error is returned. It just assumes Jan 10, 0001 and Dec. 10th, 0031.)
I think the best way is to just input the quarter start date and quarter end dates without even bothering with to_date. I think if you use
between '1-Jan-10' and '31-Dec-10'
for example, then you don't (in Oracle I believe) need to_date and it isn't much more difficult than typing in the quarter number
To calculate in Oracle the first day of a quarter and the last day of a quarter from the year and quarter:
I Use the fact
start_month= -2 + 3 * quarter
last_month = 3 * quarter
variable v_year number
variable v_quarter number
exec :v_year :=2017
exec :v_quarter:=4
select :v_year as year,
:v_quarter as quarter,
to_date(:v_year||to_char(-2+3*:v_quarter,'fm00'),'yyyymm') as quarter_start,
last_day(to_date(:v_year||to_char(3*:v_quarter,'fm00')||'01 23:59:59','yyyymmdd hh24:mi:ss')) as quarter_end
from dual a;
YEAR|QUARTER|QUARTER_START |QUARTER_END
2017| 4|2017-10-01 00:00:00|2017-12-31 23:59:59