RE: inserting into DATE colum

You only need format for the HH:MI:SS not the others.

Rick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helmut Daiminger [SMTP:hdaiminger_at_vivonet.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 2:01 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: inserting into DATE colum
>
> 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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