ORA-01722 INVALID NUMBER in oracle - sql

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

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What should I add in the timestamp format for this to be possible ?
I have tried doing it like this HH:MI:SS.FM00000 as suggested here
but it gives me the error. ORA-01821: date format not recognized
what is the correct way to get the date in the desired format ?

If you want fractional seconds, you don't want a DATE, you want a TIMESTAMP. So here's a timestamp formatted with 6 digits of precision
select to_char(systimestamp, 'HH:MI:SS.FF6') from dual;
If you have a date, you could convert it to a TIMESTAMP (using CAST AS TIMESTAMP), but better to look at updating your data model to use the proper type for the source column as starters.

How to convert a VARCHAR to a date in ORACLE SQL?

I have that field in my table:
2020-01-16T10:55:16..296518000
How to convert this Varchar into a date in format 'YYYY-MM-DD' ?
I tried:
select TRUNC(to_date(DATE_UPDATED ,'YYYY-MM-DD hh24:mi:ss')) from JOB_SCHEDULE_TBL
but I'm getting an error:
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Just use substr():
select to_date(SUBSTR(DATE_UPDATED, 1, 10) ,'YYYY-MM-DD')
The trunc() is unnecessary.

You are confusing the format of DATE with what you are seeing on the screen. A DATE data type has no "format". It's Oracle's internal, binary format. Even when you SELECT TO_DATE ..., the result is going to get displayed by the client, and to do so the client will have to peform (under the covers) a TO_CHAR on the resulting DATE. And that implied to_char will use the current system/session/ settings for TNS_DATE_FORMAT.

Oracle SQL how to convert time zone string to date

I have following 2015-06-17T00:00:00.000+05:00 string.
I want to convert this string to Date using oracle sql.
I tried lot of format mask but none works for me :
SELECT TO_DATE('2015-06-17T00:00:00.000+05:00','yyyy-mm-dd HH24:MI:SS TZR') FROM DUAL;
Any idea which format mask should i apply for above conversion.
Also please note that i only need date information i.e (mm-dd-yyyy). So its also ok if the conversion results in date information only (i.e skipping time information)

This should work:
SELECT TO_DATE(SUBSTR('2015-06-17T00:00:00.000+05:00',1,10),'yyyy-mm-dd') from dual

If you need to keep track of the time zone you should probably look at something like this:
SELECT CAST(TO_TIMESTAMP_TZ('2015-06-17T00:00:00.000+05:00','yyyy-mm-dd"T"HH24:MI:SS.FFTZH:TZM') AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' AS DATE) FROM DUAL;

store dates in oracle

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

Formatting dates in PostgreSQL

I have a field which its format is date with time as: YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS for example: 2000-08-12 00:00:00 I want to get just the date part and change its format to DD/MMM/YYYY for example the expected result of the previous example will be: 12/Aug/2000
The field definition is: Ddate timestamp without time zone DEFAULT now()
I read the whole page of Date/Time Functions and Operators and other sources as well but I couldn't find any information that is helpful.

You can use the to_char function to format your column:
SELECT TO_CHAR(ddatte, 'dd/Mon/yyyy') FROM mytable

try with:
to_char(your_Field, 'dd/mm/yyyy')