Truncated date format

Hi,
for creating a unique index with a date-column A_DATE I'm using a
calculated column X_DATE as (trunc(A_DATE)):
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX UX_A_TABLE
ON A_TABLE (
X_DATE
Using A_DATE in UX_A_TABLE would fail if someone would use sysdate two
times a day.
Is there a column-data-type restricted to truncated date format?
Regards
Sandeep

user13100082 wrote:
Hi,
for creating a unique index with a date-column A_DATE I'm using a
calculated column X_DATE as (trunc(A_DATE)):
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX UX_A_TABLE
ON A_TABLE (
X_DATE
Using A_DATE in UX_A_TABLE would fail if someone would use sysdate two
times a day.
Is there a column-data-type restricted to truncated date format?
Regards
SandeepAll the data types are documented in the fine SQL Reference manual.
Of course if you have a DATE datatype, and you limit it to just the date (eliminate time component) and also make it a unique constraint, you could only have one row per day. It sounds like you are looking for some magic data type that gets around this fundamental logic.

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To: "C. M. Motta" <[email protected]>
From: Jim Milbery <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Oracle DATE data format conversion..
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