Date comparision not working in BI-Publisher in one scenario.

Question

Hi,
Iam using sqlquery as a datamodel for BI-Publisher report. I have a requirement that the input parameters startdate and endate are Date types. When the user enters startdate and enddate and clicks on view, the report should show data which falls in between those dates.
Here is the sample query i used.
select * from
table1
where begintime >= :p_StartDate and begintime <=:p_EndDate
Here begintime is a timestamp and p_StartDate and p_EndDate are just dates. So when comparing begintime with p_StartDate/p_EndDate, i guess its taking default time from that date and because of that the comparision is failing in 1 case. i.e, In the above query, though the comparision operator is >= or <= , ultimately > or < is getting effective. So to acheive the actual result, I need to give one day more for start and end dates.
However I found a way to acheive this without adding extra day to both the dates. Here it is :
select * from table1 where
( begintime >= to_timestamp(to_char(:p_StartDate) || '00 00 00', 'DD Mon YYYY HH24 MI SS')) and
( begintime <= to_timestamp(to_char(:p_EndDate) || '23 59 59', 'DD Mon YYYY HH24 MI SS'))
But the above is working in sqleditor like jdeveloper database navigator. But not working in BI-Publisher.
BI-Publisher is throwing error saying
"ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire input string"
Please help as to how to go about this problem or any alternative solution.
Thanks & Regards,
-Vijay-

Answer 1

Hi,
I think it will be fine to trunc the begin time since :p_StartDate and p_EndDate are just dates without time stamp
i.e:
select * from
table1
where trunc(begintime) >= :p_StartDate and trunc(begintime) <=:p_EndDate;
any problem with this.Please share the thought.
Best Regards,
mahi