Oracle date conversion

Hi all,
maybe anyone of you knows an answer to this:
Why does Oracle accept a date in format dd.mm.yyyy without explicitely converting to dd-mmm-yy in Windows but not in Solaris ? (It's the same program code producing exactly the same sql statement.)
Thank you
Marko

Hi Date format in Oracle is entirly depand on the NLS_DATE_FORMAT . You can see NLS parameter in V$NLS_PARAMETERS table of your database.. You can change for Your session using
ALTER SESSION
SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT ='dd/mm/yyyy'
But this is aplicable to your session only.. Please check this parameter in both Soraris as well NT ..
Regards
Pradeep Jain

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RE: Oracle DATE data format conversion..

<C.M> Motta's question about dates and oracle>
Dealing with dates and Oracle is somewhat of a nuisance. Oracle is very
particular about how date strings are formatted, and if you get it wrong,
you get the (unhelpful) message that C.M. Motta showed us. However, if
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 08:18:37 -0500
To: "C. M. Motta" <[email protected]>
From: Jim Milbery <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Oracle DATE data format conversion..
Cc: [email protected]
Cheers:
Most likely what is happening is that you are using the default date
format of Oracle, and you are sending a four-character year. As follows:
SQL> insert into jimbo values ('01-dec-1997')
2 /
insert into jimbo values ('01-dec-1997')
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire inputstring
>
Oracle defaults to a format of 'dd-MON-yy'
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database as follows:
insert into jimbo values (to_Date('01-jan-1997', 'DD-MON-YYYY'))
\jimbo
At 09:21 AM 11/6/96 -0200, you wrote:
Forte Users,
First, Id like to thank all those who answered my question on
droplist & SQL. I got just what I was looking for: its up and runnunig
now.
I have another question: Im trying to insert a DATE into an Oracle
database. The source date is:
data : DateTimeData = new;
data.SetCurrent();
So, when I try to insert data.Value or data.textvalue into DB, I
get the following exception:
ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire
input string.
Are there any suggestions?
Thanks for your help,
C.M. Motta
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from table
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With respect to open AR, AP Invoices if the invoices are converted using a control account for migration in GL then
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Your hex conversion is certainly not returning a date format:
sql> select UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2(HEXTORAW('00009CFD00000000')) from dual;
UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2(HEXTORAW('00009CFD00000000'))
┐²To convert the hex number to decimal, simply use to_number:
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1.7261E+14Now, before you can make any further calculations with that number, you need to know how it represents the date of 2010-01-13. Luckily, we've got Google nowadays. ;-)
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40189
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13-JAN-10Note: Oracle DATE format specifies a datetime up to the second, whereas the sqlserver DATETIME format specifies a datetime up to the millisecond; if that precision is needed, use Oracle's TIMESTAMP instead.
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