I am trying to convert the date from YYYYMMDD to DD-Mon-YYYY in Oracle, but to_char or to_Date is not working. Can you please advise?
select to_date(20150324,'DD-Mon-YY') from dual;
select to_char(20150324,'DD-Mon-YY') from dual;
I get an error message saying: - ORA-01861: literal does not match format string
Use this combination of to_char and to_date:
select to_char (to_date('20150324','YYYYMMDD'), 'DD-Mon-YY') from dual;
Your mistake was, that you used the wrong date pattern. Additionally it's recommended to add'', though it worked without them in this case.
Check this Fiddle.
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I need to convert sysdate in YYYYMM format to validate the expiry date, this is the query I have written but am facing the below error.
select to_char (to_date(sysdate,'MM/DD/YYYY'),'YYYYMM') from dual;
ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected
There is no reason to convert sysdate to a date. So just use:
select to_char(sysdate, 'YYYYMM')
If you wanna to format the date, try "DATE_FORMAT" way:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2011-11-11 13:14:01','%m%Y')
or you wanna to get the difference between the expired date and sysdate,you may try "DATEDIFF":
SELECT DATEDIFF('2001-01-01','2001-02-02') -> -32
Below is the example
2016-02-06T06:06:41+00:00
will be converted to
2/6/2016 6:06:00 AM
Thanks in advance
Use TO_CHAR to get a formatted string from a timestamp:
select to_char(timestamp '2016-02-06 06:06:41 +00:00',
'fmdd/mm/yyyy fmhh:mi:ss am') from dual;
(The FM in the format exist to suppress leading zeros.)
Following query is giving error:
SELECT to_char(last_day(add_months(to_char(to_date('01-02-2013','dd-mm-yyyy'),
'dd-MON-yyyy'),-1)) + 1,'dd-mm-yyyy') FROM dual;
ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected
I tried this on two systems:
with NLS_DATE_FORMAT='DD-MON-RR' - this query works fine.
With NLS_DATE_FORMAT='MM-DD-YYYY' - gives me error ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected.
Any clues as to why this query is failing? I can't have the queries be dependent on the DATE format.
Why are you doing a to_char when calling add_months , you need to pass a date like
SELECT to_char(last_day(add_months(to_date('01-02-2013','dd-mm-yyyy'),
,-1)) + 1,'dd-mm-yyyy') FROM dual;
You have an implicit char-to-date conversion, in the add_months() call; the argument you're passing is a string, not a date. The to_char() you have inside that is redundant, and causing the error when your NLS_DATE_FORMAT doesn't match the format you're using in that to_char():
SELECT to_char(last_day(add_months(to_date('01-02-2013','dd-mm-yyyy'),-1)) + 1,
'dd-mm-yyyy') FROM dual;
I'm not entirely sure what you're doing though... if you want the first day of the month that date is in, you can do this:
SELECT to_char(trunc(to_date('01-02-2013', 'dd-mm-yyyy'), 'MM'),
'dd-mm-yyyy') FROM dual;
This uses the TRUNC(date) function to effectively round down to the start of the month.
I have a file contains a string like 2011-03-14 11:57:42+08:00 and I need to store it in a column with DATE datatype. I use Oracle 11g.
I have tried TO_DATE function but it didn't work.
Can anyone help me?
thanks in advance
You have to use the function TO_TIMESTAMP_TZ to get the timezone properly parsed:
SELECT CAST(TO_TIMESTAMP_TZ('2011-03-14 11:57:42+08:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS+TZH:TZM') AS DATE) AS my_date
FROM DUAL
;
(And as a side note to your example in the comment: no need for TO_CHAR, quoting was missing and format model MON (abbreviated month) was incorrect)
I'm trying to convert a number (yyyymmdd) to date (mm/dd/yyyy)
For example
20150302 ====> 03/02/2015
You can try this:
select to_date(20150302,'yyyymmdd') from dual;
or
select to_char(to_date(20150302,'yyyymmdd'),'mm/dd/yyyy') from dual;
You can use TO_DATE function to convert NUMBER to DATE. Try in following:
SELECT TO_DATE(20150302, 'YYYYMMDD') FROM DUAL
The above answer is still incorrect.
It returns a character string when a date is needed.
The correct way is:
select to_date(to_char(20210416), 'YYYYMMDD') num_to_char_to_date from dual;
TO_DATE accepts char of CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, or NVARCHAR2 datatype and converts into a value of DATE datatype.
So, convert the number into string, and apply to_date. You could use single-quotation marks around the number to convert it into string.
SELECT TO_DATE('20150302', 'YYYYMMDD') FROM dual;
Remember, a DATE has no format, what you see is for display purpose. If you want to display the date in a desired format, then use TO_CHAR along with your desired format model.
SELECT TO_CHAR(TO_DATE('20150302', 'YYYYMMDD'), 'mm/dd/yyyy') FROM dual;
Read more about TO_DATE.
To convert in the required format:
select to_char(to_date(20150302, 'YYYYDDMM'), 'mm/dd/yyyy')
select to_char(to_date(20220912, 'YYYYDDMM'), 'YYYYMMDD') from dual