Insertion / Update of field of type "TIME" using Native SQL

Question

Hi ABAP gurus,
We are trying to perform inserts and updates within an ORACLE table where a TIME field exists without suscess. We are trying to code it using Native SQL.
EXEC SQL.
INSERT INTO table (field1[name], field2[age], field3[birthday], field4[hour])
VALUES (:name, :age, TO_DATE(:date_birth), ¿:hour?)
ENDEXEC.
EXEC SQL.
UPDATE table SET field3[birthday] = TO_DATE(:date_birth), field4[hour] = ¿:hour?
WHERE field1[name] = :name AND field2[age] = :age
ENDEXEC.
Which is the right coding sentence in order to achieve our goal?
Many thanks in advance. Best regards,
   Imanol

Answer 1

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Imanol Beguiristain wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I am sorry for being unclear.
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> I do want to code both INSERT and UPDATE. That is clear.
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> The problem we are having is that we don't know how to code (using Native SQL) such instructions using in the SQL sentence a field of TIME type.
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> Any helps?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>   Imanol
I've not heard of an Oracle TIME datatype; we used to use the timestamp which is stored as part of the date or we set up a separate column to hold the time defined as CHAR.  Still, it is possible that they have created such a thing since I last did SQL.  In which case, there would have to be a function like TO_DATE which you would use to convert your time to its time format.
If you mean TIMESTAMP you can use something like the following to do the data conversion.
TO_TIMESTAMP(LOCALTIMESTAMP, 'DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF')