TO_DATE - How do I pass the date and time to the function

Question

Hi,
I am writing a PL/SQL code. The code has a simple cursor,
For the criteria, I am using a column called 'created' which is a date column, and the to_date function.
I would like to pass the date and time to the to_date fuction as a parameter, date_value, as shown below.
CURSOR opty is
select a.name, a.id
from s_opty a
where a.created > to_date(date_value, 'DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS');
I've tried declaring a bind variable,
date_value date := '&1'
but no joy.
Any ideas would be welcomed.
Thanks in antcipation
Mukesh

Answer 1

Can this help you?
SQL> create or replace procedure sample_proc
  2  as
  3  cursor c1(v_value varchar2) is
  4          select 'YES' from dual
  5            where trunc(sysdate) = trunc(to_date(v_value, 'DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'));
  6  v_char varchar2(10);
  7  begin
  8     open c1('08/03/2006 11:35:20');
  9     fetch C1 into v_char;
10     dbms_output.put_line('Is it today''s date?> '||v_char);
11     close c1;
12  end;
13  /
Procedure created.
SQL> begin
  2    sample_proc;
  3  end;
  4  /
Is it today's date?> YES
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> If you are not very particular about the time, you can use TRUNC on both sides like :
where trunc(a.created) > trunc(to_date(date_value, 'DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'));Cheers
Sarma.