How to write mysql TIMESTAMPDIFF function in Oracle sql query - sql

Question

I have query in Mysql which return minutes using TIMESTAMPDIFF in table. But now i have migrated my data to Oracle. So i want to use the same query to get the TIMESTAMPDIFF in a table in Oracle. Oracle also dont support NOW() function in mysql. The PROCESS_START_DATE column in query have data which contains date and time. I tried EXTRACT function in oraclebut did not work. Here is my query :
select * from(
select trunc(abs(to_date('27/01/2015 08:00:00','dd/mm/yyyy hh:mi:ss') - PMS.PROCESS_START_DATE)*24*60),PM.NAME,PM.ENABLED
from PROCESS_MONITOR_STATISTIC PMS
JOIN PROCESS_MONITOR PM ON PM.ID=PMS.PROCESS_MONITOR_ID
WHERE PM.ENABLED=1 AND PM.NAME= 'WORKFLOWENGINE1'
order by PMS.PROCESS_START_DATE desc
)
where ROWNUM = 1

Answer 1

You can do something like this:
--in case you are working with dates
select trunc(abs(to_date('26/01/2015 08:00:00','dd/mm/yyyy hh:mi:ss') - sysdate)*24*60) from dual;
This represent difference in minutes between a date and now(sysdate) with dates.
--timestamp case
select abs(
extract (day from diff)*24*60 + extract (hour from diff)*60 + extract (minute from diff)) from
(select to_timestamp('27/01/2015 09:07:00','dd/mm/yyyy hh:mi:ss') - systimestamp diff from dual);
This represent difference in minutes between a date and now(systimestamp) with timestamp.
Edit:
This query calculate minutes in a year:
select 365*24*60 from dual -- this returns 525600
This is your query. i change the time. Check that the difference between these dates is one year and five minutes
select trunc(abs((to_date('26/01/14 09:00:00','dd/mm/yy hh24:mi:ss')-
to_date('26/01/2015 09:05:01','dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss'))*24*60)) from dual;
So, when run this query result is 525605, five minutes more than a year. So it looks to be working.