OBIEE - changing imported column datatypes

Hi All,
I am trying to join 2 tables in physical layer but the columns on which I am making join condition have different datatypes defined(one is datetime,another is timestamp).Hence, I am getting error incompatible datatypes can't be joined.
I don't want to change the columns datatypes in ohysical layer bcz I am not sure if some other report using this rpd might be using the join conditions based on existing datatypes.Is there any alternative to this?
Please suggest.
Thanks,
Neha

Please try to use this function. it is good if we have sample data for both columns.Please provide if you have issues using following function
Evaluate( 'to_date(%1,%2)',Evaluate( 'TO_CHAR(%1)' as char,20090101) , 'yyyymmdd')
Thanks
NK

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(SELECT
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CONTRACT_SK SIMCARD_SK
1     1
1     3
1     4
1     5
1     6
1     11
1     12
1     14
1     15
1     16
Query 2 :
(SELECT
"LOOKUP_INPUT_SUBQUERY"."CONTRACT_SK" "CONTRACT_SK",
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FROM (
SELECT
"R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK"."CONTRACT_SK" "CONTRACT_SK",
"R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK"."SIMCARD_SK" "SIMCARD_SK",
row_number ()
OVER (
PARTITION BY "R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK".
"CONTRACT_SK"
ORDER BY
"R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK"."START_DATE" DESC,
"R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK"."SEQ_NUM" DESC NULLS LAST) /* EXPRESSION_3.OUTGRP1.SIRA */
"SIRA"
FROM "SRC_OZRDS"."R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK" "R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK")
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WHERE ("LOOKUP_INPUT_SUBQUERY"."SIRA" = 1))
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7     70097256
8     18734091
9     158024
10     815397739
13     22657919
19     83177779
20     82579529
22     5829949
23     35348926
25     3865978
I expected the second output, because there are lots of contract sk but there is one contract_sk in first query result. i did not get the point. What is the problem ?

user8649469 wrote:
I changed only column order in query2.So what else do you expect? If you order, for example, by last name, fist name don't you think rows will be returned in a different order (and therefore same row will have different row number) than ordering by first name, last name?
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