Hello I have the following date in SQL ORCLE
2020-02-07 13:21:56.478000
And I want it in the following format:
27-JAN-20 03.00.00.000000000 AM
I googled around and found the to_char and to_date and came up with this
(TO_TIMESTAMP(TO_CHAR('2020-02-07 13:21:56.478000','DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS.FF'))
But I keep getting "invalid number" and oracle is not telling me where it is. Any ideas?
Use the following method
to_char(
timestamp '2020-02-07 13:21:56.478000',
'DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS.FF'
)
The problem is that to_char() expects a date-like datatype as argument, while your are giving it a string.
If you are dealing with a literal string, then you use the date literal syntax:
to_char(
timestamp '2020-02-07 13:21:56.478000',
'DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS.FF AM'
)
If you are dealing with a string column, then you can turn it to a timestamp first with to_timestamp():
to_char(
to_timestamp(my_string_col, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF'),
'DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS.FF AM'
)
Finally, if you are dealing with a timestamp column, then you can use to_char() directly:
to_char(my_date_col, 'DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS.FF AM')
Note: your original format modifier was missing the AM/PM part, I added it.
Related
i simply wanna change a string to a date format using to_date
SELECT TO_DATE('20-APR-20 09.50.06 AM' , 'DD-MOM-YY HH24:MI:SS AM') FROM DUAL;
and also i want to change to 24 format
when i run this i get the ORA-01821: date format not recognized error .
The correct format for converting your string to a date is:
SELECT TO_DATE('20-APR-20 09.50.06 AM' , 'DD-MON-YY HH.MI.SS AM')
FROM DUAL;
If you want it as a string, then you can use TO_CHAR() after converting to a date. That said, I recommend keeping the value as a date.
The correct format is
SELECT TO_CHAR(TO_DATE('20/APR/20 09.50.06 AM' , 'DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS AM'),'DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS AM') FROM DUAL;
I'm getting an Error when I run the query below:
to_date('30-APR-19 09.53.35.000000 AM', 'DD-Mon-yy hh24.mi.ss')
Date format picture ends before converting entire input into string
Can I get an assistance please
The major problem you've got is that your date-and-time string can't be parsed using TO_DATE - you'll need to use TO_TIMESTAMP. The issue is that TO_DATE doesn't recognize the FFn format specifier, which is used to process fractional seconds. This makes sense because DATE values are only accurate to the second. So you'll need to use
TO_TIMESTAMP('30-APR-19 09.53.35.000000 AM', 'DD-MON-YY HH.MI.SS.FF6 AM')
Which will return a TIMESTAMP value. If you really need this to be a DATE rather than a TIMESTAMP you can cast the value to DATE by using
CAST(TO_TIMESTAMP('30-APR-19 09.53.35.000000 AM', 'DD-MON-YY HH.MI.SS.FF6 AM') AS DATE)
dbfiddle here
You can directly use to_date function and miliseconds can be ignored using # as following:
to_date('30-APR-19 09.53.35.000000 AM', 'DD-MON-YY HH.MI.SS.###### AM')
Number of # is equal to number of 0s after dot(.)
db<>fiddle demo
Cheers!!
I am not able to obtain the date object from date string 2019-01-21T19:02:25Z
select to_char(to_date('2019-01-21T19:02:25Z','yyyy-mm-ddThh24:mi:ssZ'),'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss') from dual;
yields
ORA-01821: date format not recognized
01821. 00000 - "date format not recognized"
*Cause:
*Action:
May I know what date format is used.
Either use quotes to match the T and Z as literals:
SELECT TO_CHAR(
TO_DATE(
'2019-01-21T19:02:25Z',
'yyyy-mm-dd"T"hh24:mi:ss"Z"'
),
'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss'
)
FROM DUAL;
or, match the T as a literal and use TO_TIMESTAMP_TZ with the TZH and TZM format models to match the time zone hours and minutes components (or, instead, TZR to match the time zone region):
SELECT TO_CHAR(
TO_TIMESTAMP_TZ(
'2019-01-21T19:02:25Z',
'yyyy-mm-dd"T"hh24:mi:ssTZHTZM'
),
'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss'
)
FROM DUAL;
db<>fiddle
I have the following date in oracle table:
'2017-08-01 00:00:00,000000000'
I want to convert this to date which I am using the following but I don't know how to deal with zeroes?!
.
.
.
T.EXECUTION_LOCAL_DATE_TIME
between to_date('2017-08-01 00:00:00,000000000', 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss')
and to_date('2017-08-10 00:00:00,000000000', 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss');
Could anyone help me with this?
Oracle dates do not support milliseconds. Assuming your EXECUTION_LOCAL_DATE_TIME column is a date, then the following comparison is the best you can do:
T.EXECUTION_LOCAL_DATE_TIME
BETWEEN TO_DATE('2017-08-01 00:00:00', 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss') AND
TO_DATE('2017-08-10 00:00:00', 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss');
If you wanted to convert a text string with milliseconds to a timestamp, you could use something like this:
TO_TIMESTAMP ('2017-08-01 00:00:00,000000000', 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss,ff')
Generally speaking this values in not a date but a timestamp so I would use following conversion:
select to_timestamp('2017-08-01 00:00:00,000000000', 'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss,ff6')
from dual;
Technically you can have non zeros after comma, so If you want to get correct but not truncated value use timestamp date type.
I am facing the following problem.
I have a database with a table which saves Dates (with its time).
Now I would like to know all the tables information where the date is in between two timestamps, but I am getting the following error:
01830. 00000 - "date format picture ends before converting entire input string".
What I did so far is this query:
SELECT * FROM ARBEITSBLOCK WHERE STARTZEIT BETWEEN '30.11.2015 19:00:00'
and '01.12.2015 19:05:00';
And this which doesn't give me any result but there should be:
SELECT * FROM ARBEITSBLOCK
WHERE TO_CHAR(STARTZEIT,'DD.MM.YYYY H24:MM:SS') BETWEEN '30.11.2015 13:00:00'
and '01.12.2015 19:05:00';
Try this statement (using Oracle syntax)
SELECT *
FROM ARBEITSBLOCK
WHERE STARTZEIT BETWEEN TO_DATE ('12/04/2015 09:00:00 AM', 'mm/dd/yyyy hh:mi:ss AM')
AND TO_DATE ('12/04/2015 10:00:00 AM', 'mm/dd/yyyy hh:mi:ss AM');
If STARTZEIT is a DATE column, then why are you trying to compare it to a string?
By doing that, you are relying on Oracle being able to say "aha! This string is really a date, so I will attempt to convert it for you!". That's all well and good, but how will Oracle know how the date-in-the-string is formatted?
Well, there's the nls_date_format parameter which is defaulted to 'DD-MON-RR', and I think you can now see why you're getting the "date format picture ends before converting entire input string" error, since 'DD-MON-RR' is a lot shorter than '30.11.2015 19:00:00'.
Instead of relying on this implicit conversion and the bugs that go right along with that (as you've discovered!), you should explicitly convert the string into a date, which you can easily do with the to_date() function.
E.g.:
select *
FROM ARBEITSBLOCK
WHERE STARTZEIT BETWEEN to_date('30.11.2015 19:00:00', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
and to_date('01.12.2015 19:05:00', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi:ss');
Oracle does not store dates in the format you see. It stores it internally in 7 bytes with each byte storing different components of the datetime value.
You must use TO_DATE with proper FORMAT MODEL to explicitly convert the literal to DATE.
SELECT *
FROM ARBEITSBLOCK
WHERE STARTZEIT BETWEEN
TO_DATE('30.11.2015 19:00:00', 'DD.MM.YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
AND
TO_DATE('01.12.2015 19:05:00', 'DD.MM.YYYY HH24:MI:SS');
Remember, the DATE data type has both date and time elements, TIMESTAMP is an extension to DATE data type.