Change format date TO_DATE(TRUNC(DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE...

Hi all...
I am trying dbms_random like this :
**Type data :
AAAA VARCHAR2(35)
BBBB VARCHAR2(6)
DDDD VARCHAR2(20)
E_DATE VARCHAR2(14)
**store procedur :
BEGIN
FOR X IN 0..3 LOOP
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES (
'AAAA--'|| dbms_random.string('X', 28),
'BBBB' || TO_CHAR (TRUNC(dbms_random.value(0,10))),
'CCCC--'|| dbms_random.string('X', 12),
TO_DATE(TRUNC(DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE(2455532,2455563+3)),'J')
END LOOP;
END;
Output :
AAAA BBBB DDDD E_DATE
AAAA--RTL2OWN8RVOMY1IUD93RP91RWOQA BBBB1 CCCC--JCWAXRO3TMP0 12-DEC-10
AAAA--629F3A4AIW5E4OHCDVFZ41SFB2U4 BBBB5 CCCC--DLAUZO511Y97 12-DEC-10
AAAA--XHKR95JISQRTRH54KNOQKDVUJ6QF BBBB6 CCCC--K7CHOT2KULNV 10-DEC-10
AAAA--7DRZ38SPRIN26HNA7VPQV9FKWCCQ BBBB7 CCCC--FXV3CCY3BWHY 09-DEC-10i want format E_DATE to DD-MM-YYYY without change type data and still use dbms_random...
Could you pls solve me out ?
Thank you
-newbie-pl/sql-

Hi,
Sorry, I'm not sure I uderstand the problem.
Are you getting the date correctly, but you want to store it in a VARCHAR2 column? That's not a very good idea: dates belong in DATE columns, but if you ever want to convert a DATE into a string, use TO_CHAR:
TO_CHAR ( TO_DATE ( TRUNC ( DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE (2455532, 2455563+3)
            , 'J'
     , 'DD-MM-YYYY'
     )or equivalently:
TO_CHAR ( DATE '2010-12-01' + dbms_random.value (0, 34)
     , 'DD-MM-YYYY'
     )Since you're not displaying the hours, minutes or seconds, there's no point in using TRUNC just to set them to 00:00:00.
Edited by: Frank Kulash on Feb 9, 2011 10:32 PM

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