RE: inserting into DATE colum

From: Bala, Prakash <prakash.bala_at_cingular.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 10:43:17 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002E573A.20010409102632@fatcity.com>

Helmut,

If you want to insert the date in any format other than 'DD-MON-YYYY' or 'DD-MON-YY', you need to specify the date format when you use the to_date function.

Prakash

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Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 2:01 PM
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Hi!

I have a question concerning inserting data in a DATE column. The deal is that sometimes, I just wanna insert DD/MM/YYYY and in other cases I wanna insert DD/MM/YYYY HH:MI:SS in the same column.

How can I handle that?

insert into TbTABLE values (To_Date('03/09/2001'), To_Date('03/09/2001'),
                            To_Date('03/09/2001'), To_Date('03/09/2001'),
                            To_Date('03/09/2001 11:11:11'))

Do I need to supply formatting information for the date to the insert statement?

This is 8.1.6 on Win2k.

Thanks,
Helmut

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