DATE FORMAT IN SQL

Hi
I need to compare between 2 dates and display the greatest among them.
Ex:
Date1 : 05/09/08 13:50 MDT
Date2 : 06/09/08 13:50 CDT
The greatest among these two is 06/09/08 13:50 CDT . But here I need to display
Date with Time stamp . like the output format should be "06/09/08 13:50 CDT"
Any body have any Idea about how to write Sql for this?

Please, take a look in the doc :
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96540/functions134a.htm#1032202
Nicolas.

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Date format in SQL statements

Hi there !
Please, can anyone help me find out what is going on with date format in my SQL Statements ?
While in development, the date format in SQL statements were:
SELECT DATA_FIELD FROM TABLE WHERE DATE_COL = '10-DEC-2004'
And works fine.
After deploy to production server, we get ORACLE error: not a valid month
So we change the format to
SELECT DATA_FIELD FROM TABLE WHERE DATE_COL = '10/12/2004'
And it gets to works again.
Yesterday, the net administrator updated the JAVAC / JSDK run-time with Java update tool, and AGAIN we get ORACLE error: not a valid month
So we change the format AGAIN to
SELECT DATA_FIELD FROM TABLE WHERE DATE_COL = '10-DEZ-2004'
And it gets to works again.
What is going on ?
JAVAC running on Windows2003.
The application access the ORACLE DB directly through JDBC.
There is no APPLICATION SERVER, like TOMCAT.
The regedit (windows registry) ALWAYS was and are now :
NLS_DATE_FORMAT = DD-MON-YYYY
NLS_LANG = AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1
Versions:
DB Oracle 9.2.0.5.0
JavaC 1.4.2.05
Thanks.
Juliano

Somewhere, I'm willing to wager your NLS_DATE_FORMAT was/ is being changed. This is a client-side setting. Are you sure that the setting is the same on every client machine.
This is one of the reasons that it is considered bad form to rely on implicit conversion. If you wrap your string literal in a TO_DATE, use the JDBC escape sequence {d }, or use a Date bind variable, you don't have this problem. The bind variable approach will also play much more nicely with your database's shared pool.
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Date formats for SQL statements used by recordset object

Hi,
Date formatting appears to be quite problematic for Business One. I did a forum search for date issues and I don't think I saw any of them with an "answered" status. I have an issue with formatting a date for the creation of an SQL statement that the DI sends to SQL Server 2005. I need to format a date so that the localization parameters don't matter for either the client machine or SQL Server's machine. We don't have a problem as long as our machines are localized as USA.
I have PL 22 and I have a form - ours - where I use the Today() function to fill a date field. So this is a date that is not entered by the user. The result of this function is consistent with the localization parameters on my machine. We have two other date fields on the form where the user must type in the date.
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I dismissed the form then brought it back up loaded with the new record. The date that was entered by the function appeared in USA format (mm/dd/yy). The dates that were typed in appeared in the Business One format (dd/mm/yy). This of course is not consistent.
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Mike

Ian,
Here's what I'm concerned about: Im using the date in a WHERE clause.
Assume the date is Aug 3, 2007.
"SELECT * FROM Table WHERE StartDate > 8/3/2007"
OR
"SELECT * FROM Table WHERE StartDate > 3/8/2007"
If the client machine is set up as USA, the today function will provide the date as formatted in the first query. If the database server is setup as lets say the UK, I believe that SQL Server query parser will interpret the date as Mar 8, 2007.
If the client machine is set up as UK, the today function will provide the date as formatted in the second query. If the database server is setup as lets say USA, I believe that SQL Server query parser will also interpret the date as Mar 8, 2007.
In both cases it would be wrong.
I know I could use the DATEPART function to get the three parts and this will make the code indifferent to the localization specs of the client machine. I need to then be able to concatenate those date parts for the WHERE clause so that the localization specifications of the database server dont matter.
Thanks,
Mike

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EA1 - Cannot Change Date Format in SQL Results

In version 1.2, I used to go to Tools > Preferences > Database > NLS Paramters and change the date format there. The change would then be reflected in the SQL results for date columns.
When I try to do the same thing in 1.5 EA1, the date format is always the same, DD-MON-RR, no matter what I put in the date format setting under NLS Paramters.
Am I missing something?
Thanks.

Just a quick post to make sure that the bug you logged takes into account all NLS parameters :), as this does not concern only dates but also timestamp formats, decimal and group separators as well, and probably all of the NLS parameters I assume.

How to convert from ifs date format to sql based dates

I want to write a sql query using dates, to search an ifs
database. Ifs stores dates as numbers created using the
java.util.Date class. These dates are accurate to seconds.
PLSQL uses a different format.
What I need is a PLSQL function that converts PLSQL date format
to and from the java.util.date format.
This is an example of what I would like to do.
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Wrong Date format in SQL Server

Hello All,
I have an asp page with a hidden field that holds
<%=Date()%>. Because the
Session.LCID is set to UK this value today would be
12/03/2007 (UK format).
When this hidden field is fed into an INSERT Stored Procedure
in SQL Server
in my testing environment, the date format that is inserted
into the
database is the same as the value in the hidden field eg
12/03/2007, which
is what I want.
Now though, the site has moved to a production web server
with SQL Server.
When I perform this exact insert using the same webpages and
(from what I
can see) the same SQL Server configuration, the date inserts
as 03/12/2007,
US format. This is causing me big problems as the website is
complete but
the wrong dateformat is producing some undesirable results.
The whole site
is set up to expect the original format and I cannot see why
this is
happening.
Does anyone have any suggestions and more importantly how I
can change this
please.

There is a real issue here and it has nothing to do with the
way that data
is formatted on the way out.
msSQL does seem to always assume that numbers entered in the
format of
00/00/00 follow the pattern of MM/DD/YY which is American
format. So the 8th
of March entered in UK format of 08/03/2007 ends up being
intrepreted by SQL
as 3rd August. However it only does this up to the 12th of
each month. If
you enter the 13th of March as 13/03/2007 SQL stores it
correctly.
The workaround does seem to enter the number in the
YYYY-MM-DD format as
Julian has suggested.
Paul Whitham
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"Lionstone" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> SQL Server does not store dates in any format. They are
simply numbers,
> with the integer part representing date and the
fractional part
> representing time. If you do not format dates on the way
out, then you're
> leaving things up to your web server (and depending on
when the dates
> become strings, it might be the ADO provider and not ASP
that does the
> formatting).
>
> The only way to reliably format dates the way you want
is to do so
> explicitly. You may use CONVERT for SQL Server and
specify a format
> option (
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa226054(SQL.80).aspx),
> or you may use the FormatDateTime function in your ASP
page.
> FormatDateTime is locale-aware when it formats dates.
All you have to do
> is make sure the locale is set properly (which you seem
to have done).
>
>
>
> "TTal" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I have an asp page with a hidden field that holds
<%=Date()%>. Because
>> the Session.LCID is set to UK this value today would
be 12/03/2007 (UK
>> format).
>>
>> When this hidden field is fed into an INSERT Stored
Procedure in SQL
>> Server in my testing environment, the date format
that is inserted into
>> the database is the same as the value in the hidden
field eg 12/03/2007,
>> which is what I want.
>>
>> Now though, the site has moved to a production web
server with SQL
>> Server. When I perform this exact insert using the
same webpages and
>> (from what I can see) the same SQL Server
configuration, the date inserts
>> as 03/12/2007, US format. This is causing me big
problems as the website
>> is complete but the wrong dateformat is producing
some undesirable
>> results. The whole site is set up to expect the
original format and I
>> cannot see why this is happening.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions and more
importantly how I can change
>> this please.
>>
>
>

Multiple date formats using sql developer

Hello!
i have 2 date fields in a table.. one is populated using trunc(<date1>) and the other is to_date(<date2>,'YYYYMMDD HH24MISS'). We want <date1> to display as MM/DD/YYYY and <date2> to display as MM/DD/YYYY HH:MI:SS AMPM. When we set the date format under Preference -> Database -> NLS parameter in SQL Developer with a time format it adds 12:00:00 to <date1>, if we take it out, it drops the time in <date2>. What can we do?
thanks!

I think what the original poster wanted was to display the two date columns using different formats in the table "Data" tab and AFAIK that is not possible. Setting a date format in the Preferences accomplishes the same thing as the statement
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT='<some format>';
in command-line SQL*Plus. To do what the OP wants they'll need to create a view that has a SELECT something like this:
SELECT TO_CHAR( date1, 'YYYY-MM-DD' ) date1
, TO_CHAR( date2, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') date2
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Ed. H.

Date Format in SQL Loader

Dear All,
I have a table CMS_HO where I have defined different columns. One column is of date type STATUS_DATE. I want to upload one ASCII file where one field is in the format like below:
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http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/fcdb/oracle/or-load.html#loading%20date%20data
Based on the sample data you provided, i think this is the format you're after.
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3 from dual;
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Help with date format and sql

Hi
I am a complete oracle idiot.
I have created a table with 2 columns po_id,po_date. Yhe id data type is number,date type is date. To add values to the table i enter something like
"insert into purchase_orders(po_id,po_date) values(1,01/01/2004)"
It does not accept the date and will not add the record, i have also tried the date format 01-Jan-2004.
What is the proper way to add the date.
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You probably want to use an explicit to_date cast. That lets you specify the format of the date string, i.e.
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Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
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Checking correct data format using sql query

1) I got column date of joining which accepts date in below format
DD-MON-YYYY
DD-MON-YY
MON-DD-YYYY
MON-DD-YY
Month DD,YYYY
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MMDDYYYY
YYYYMMDD
MM/DD/YYYY
MM/DD/YY
YYYY/DD/MM
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sorry if it is a very simple question since I am new to sql and trying to learn ......Thanks for the answers from the group............

In short, NO, it's not possible. If you store dates correctly in the database as DATE datatype then you don't have this problem. If you store them as VARCHAR2 you have a problem.
So, you get a date of 20092012
Is that 20th September 2012? or is it 20th December 2009?
What about...
11-Jan-12
Is that 11th January 2012 or 12th January 2011?
Dates should never be stored on the database as strings. That is why Oracle gives you a DATE datatype so you can store them properly.
Also, when dates are passed from an application to the database, the application should be passing them as DATE datatype, and the application interface should be designed to accept dates from the user in a format specific to their country/locality and it would then know what that format is and automatically convert it to a DATE datatype before it gets anywhere near the database or any SQL.

Problem in converting util date format to sql date format

im trying to convert util date to sql date...i'm getting the error msg as
Error is : java.lang.NullPointerException
Error Message : null
i'm not bale to track the result...whatz the problem with this code?
This fromDate value will be dynamically built, value will be
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sqlD.setTime(xx.getTime());
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I try this and it works:
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hi,
plz need hpl for this
i have this query :
q = "select count(*) from logs where dateLog=current_date";i have a logs in this current date but i havn't any data output ?

Show us more of your code, please--especiall the spot where you read data from the ResultSet.

Date Format in SQL*Plus

How can I change SQL*Plus to run the statement:
select * from t_1 where t_1.date_ini = '22-05-2001'
Thank You

I had this problem the other day and with a lot of toll and trouble I figured it out.
select * from dual where to_date(t_1.date_ini,'DD-MM-YYYY') = '22-05-2001'
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Miguel Miqambres ([email protected]):
How can I change SQL*Plus to run the statement:
select * from t_1 where t_1.date_ini = '22-05-2001'
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