"format appears twice" in "to_date"

I have a C program running on UNIX. I am trying to insert a "timestamp" (year to seconds) from a host variable typed as VARCHAR. With "to_date(:varname,'MM-DD-YYYY HH:MM:SS')" inserted in the VALUES section, the "format appears twice" message appears. The text in the VARCHAR matches this format exactly.
How to fix? Oracle's insistence on denying what appears to be a valid format for a conversion is HIGHLY frustrating?

Thank you for a concise response that both fixes AND explains the problem. I had seen several responses on this site (which told me about the HH24 format), but gleaning the most useful information was difficult.

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ORA-01810: format code appears twice ORA-02063: preceding line from PULSARL

Hi ,
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select distinct to_char(a.USAGEDATE, 'dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm'),round((a.avgifoutoctets * a.numberofrows / (a.avgdeltatime * a.numberofrows) * 8 / 1000 ), 2)as avginoctetrate from vware.vhourlyrtgusageextract a ,vware.rtginterface b where a.id = b.ID and a.id = 125555 and a.USAGEDATE >= TO_CHAR(TO_DATE('2011-05-22 11:40:47', 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss')) and a.USAGEDATE < TO_CHAR(TO_DATE('2011-05-29 11:40:47', 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss')) and a.IFDESCRIPTION = 'Serial1/0' order by 1
I am getting this exception
ORA-01810: format code appears twice ORA-02063: preceding line from PULSARL
Could anybody please tell me what is the issue ??

Hi,
The issue is:
SQL> select TO_DATE ( '2011-05-29 11:40:47', 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss') from dual;
select TO_DATE ( '2011-05-29 11:40:47', 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss') from dual
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01810: format code appears twiceYou are using MM twice. MM means two digit months. You probably mean MI for minutes for the last one:
SQL> select TO_DATE ( '2011-05-29 11:40:47', 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mi:ss') from dual;
TO_DATE(
11-05-29
SQL>Note that you have same mistake in your to_char as well, only this does not fail.
The ORA-02063 just tells you that the error came from a different server, PULSARL, which means you must be selecting across a database link.
Btw, what does this mean:
AND a.usagedate >=
TO_CHAR (TO_DATE ( '2011-05-22 11:40:47', 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss'))Why are you converting a string into DATE and then back into string? - What data type is usagedate?
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Sqlplus query issue:customerID column appear twice

I have tried in several ways to display a query where shows customer who have made more than 3 rentals from 01Nov to 31 Dec. However, for some reason the customerID column appear twice.
** I'm using 3 tables to get this result:
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Im not sure if this query seems to be logic, I would appreciate any online guide for pl/sql

Hi,
978308 wrote:
Hi
Thank you for your answer. (I'm suing Oracle you're using (e.g. 11.2.0.1.0).
sorry my question it wasnt not clear since I didn't attached my tables .
As you suggested It is not necessary to use plsql, I tried to use the logic of algebra and old sql to solve query number 2: /* query No2
produce a list of customers who have made more than three scotter rentals in the past 2 months
show appropiate customer and rental agreement details*/
However, I found many errors maybe because I my class diagram wasnt properly completed, So I decided to used plsql to get the result.
It is true my query is incomplete because first of all I wanted to delete duplicate columns then I will work on number of ocurrences.
If I delete and customer.customerid = membershipcard.customerid , sql will show 500 customers, the repetition is even higher. The condition "customer.customerid = membershipcard.customerid" in the WHERE clause looks right; you don't have to change that part.
The SELECT clause determines what columns appear in the result set. If you only want customerid to appear in one column, then only include one customerid column in the SELECT clause. There need not be any connection between the SELECT clause and the WHERE clause; it's perfectly okay to use a column in the SELECT clause but not the WHERE clause, and it's perfectly okay to use a column in the WHERE clause but not the SELECT clause.
/* query No2
produce a list of customers who have made more than three scotter rentals in the past 2 months
show appropiate customer and rental agreement details*/Once again, please format your code, and use \ tags when you post it here to preserve the spacing. It's hard to read informatted queries like this, and therefore it's hard to debug them.
See the forum FAQ {message:id=9360002}
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where rentalAgreement.membershipcardid=MembershipCard.MembershipCardID
and customer.customerid = membershipcard.customerid
and RentalAgreement.DateAndTimeOfIssue between '01-Nov-2012' and '31-Dec-2012'Once again, don't compare a DATE (such as RentalAgreement.DateAndTimeOfIssue) to a VARCHAR2 (such as '01-Nov-2012'). You're using TO_DATE correctly in your INSERT statements; use TO_DATE in the query, too.
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RentalAgreement.DateAndTimeOfIssue;"GROUP BY a, b, c, d" means that each row of output will represent a distinct combination of columns a, b, c and d, and aggregate functions will operate on the whole group. In the query above, that means count(RentalAgreement.membershipcardid) will show the number of rows that had a value for membershipcardid for each combination of the 6 columns listed in the GROUP BY clause, including custiomerid and dateandtimeofissue. That means that rentals for each customer *and date* will be counted separately. Look at the output you're getting from query 2:Member CUSTOMER CUSTOMER DATEANDTIME ESCOTTER Number
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102 23 BLuois N113AS 23 11-Nov-2012 1 1
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The count is always 1. That is, customer 22 did have 5 rentals, but only 1 rental per day.
You haven't posted the results you want from the same data. I'm guessing you want something like this:Member CUSTOMER DATEANDTIME ESCOTTER Number
ID ID CNAME ADDRES OFISSUE ID OfRent
101 22 ALuois N193AS 19-Nov-2012 2 5
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showing that that customer 22 had 5 rentals in the period of interest. That is, you *do* want to combine all rows for a customer when COUNTing, but you *don't* want to combine the rows when displaying. The aggregate GROUP BY combines the rows, so how can you still get the details (such as date and scooter ID) for each separate rental? One way is to do a GROUP BY just to get the customerid and COUNT, and use that in an IN subquery (or maybe a join), where the main query does not use GROUP BY.
If this is a school assignment, I don't want to ruin it for you, so I'll use an example with the scott.dept and emp tables. Say we want to find which departments have mor than 1 CLERK working in them. One way to do that is:SELECT     *
FROM     scott.dept
WHERE     deptno     IN (
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