Oracle Add 1 hour in SQL - sql

Question

I am just trying to add 1 hour to a value, it is kind of complicated on where and why i am doing this but basically i just need to query something like this
select DATE_ADD(hh,1,'2014-10-15 03:30:00 pm') from dual
I keep reading old articles that say to use dateAdd or date_add but I keep getting invalid identifier errors.

Answer 1

select sysdate + 1/24 from dual;
sysdate is a function without arguments which returns DATE type
+ 1/24 adds 1 hour to a date
select to_char(to_date('2014-10-15 03:30:00 pm', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS pm') + 1/24, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS pm') from dual;

Answer 2

Use an interval:
select some_date_column + interval '1' hour
from your_table;

Answer 3

You can use INTERVAL type or just add calculated number value - "1" is equal "1 day".
first way:
select date_column + INTERVAL '0 01:00:00' DAY TO SECOND from dual;
second way:
select date_column + 1/24 from dual;
First way is more convenient when you need to add a complicated value - for example, "1 day 3 hours 25 minutes 49 seconds".
See also: http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/oracle-dates-timestamps-and-intervals.php
Also you have to remember that oracle have two interval types - DAY TO SECOND and YEAR TO MONTH.
As for me, one interval type would be better, but I hope people in oracle knows, what they do ;)

Answer 4

Old way:
SELECT DATE_COLUMN + 1 is adding a day
SELECT DATE_COLUMN + N /24 to add hour(s) - N being number of hours
SELECT DATE_COLUMN + N /1440 to add minute(s) - N being number of minutes
SELECT DATE_COLUMN + N /86400 to add second(s) - N being number of seconds
Using INTERVAL:
SELECT DATE_COLUMN + INTERVAL 'N' HOUR or MINUTE or SECOND - N being a number of hours or minutes or seconds.

Answer 5

To add/subtract from a DATE, you have 2 options :
Method #1 :
The easiest way is to use + and - to add/subtract days, hours, minutes, seconds, etc.. from a DATE, and ADD_MONTHS() function to add/subtract months and years from a DATE. Why ? That's because from days, you can get hours and any smaller unit (1 hour = 1/24 days), (1 minute = 1/1440 days), etc... But you cannot get months and years, as that depends on the month and year themselves, hence ADD_MONTHS() and no add_years(), because from months, you can get years (1 year = 12 months).
Let's try them :
SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') FROM dual; -- prints current date: 19-OCT-2019 20:42:02
SELECT TO_CHAR((SYSDATE + 1/24), 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') FROM dual; -- prints date + 1 hour: 19-OCT-2019 21:42:02
SELECT TO_CHAR((SYSDATE + 1/1440), 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') FROM dual; -- prints date + 1 minute: 19-OCT-2019 20:43:02
SELECT TO_CHAR((SYSDATE + 1/86400), 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') FROM dual; -- prints date + 1 second: 19-OCT-2019 20:42:03
-- Same goes for subtraction.
SELECT SYSDATE FROM dual; -- prints current date: 19-OCT-19
SELECT ADD_MONTHS(SYSDATE, 1) FROM dual; -- prints date + 1 month: 19-NOV-19
SELECT ADD_MONTHS(SYSDATE, 12) FROM dual; -- prints date + 1 year: 19-OCT-20
SELECT ADD_MONTHS(SYSDATE, -3) FROM dual; -- prints date - 3 months: 19-JUL-19
Method #2 : Using INTERVALs, you can or subtract an interval (duration) from a date easily. More than that, you can combine to add or subtract multiple units at once (e.g 5 hours and 6 minutes, etc..)
Examples :
SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') FROM dual; -- prints current date: 19-OCT-2019 21:34:15
SELECT TO_CHAR((SYSDATE + INTERVAL '1' HOUR), 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') FROM dual; -- prints date + 1 hour: 19-OCT-2019 22:34:15
SELECT TO_CHAR((SYSDATE + INTERVAL '1' MINUTE), 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') FROM dual; -- prints date + 1 minute: 19-OCT-2019 21:35:15
SELECT TO_CHAR((SYSDATE + INTERVAL '1' SECOND), 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') FROM dual; -- prints date + 1 second: 19-OCT-2019 21:34:16
SELECT TO_CHAR((SYSDATE + INTERVAL '01:05:00' HOUR TO SECOND), 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') FROM dual; -- prints date + 1 hour and 5 minutes: 19-OCT-2019 22:39:15
SELECT TO_CHAR((SYSDATE + INTERVAL '3 01' DAY TO HOUR), 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') FROM dual; -- prints date + 3 days and 1 hour: 22-OCT-2019 22:34:15
SELECT TO_CHAR((SYSDATE - INTERVAL '10-3' YEAR TO MONTH), 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') FROM dual; -- prints date - 10 years and 3 months: 19-JUL-2009 21:34:15

Answer 6

The calculation is simple
if you want to add 1 hour in the date .
every day have 24 hour , you can add .
select sysdate + 1/24 from dual;
if you want 1 day to add
select sysdate + 24/24 from dual;
or
select sysdate + 1 from dual;
same as for 2, 3 , 4 day
For static date you have the answer below.