Re: Change sysdate in database to a future date

SYSDATE is determined by the operating system's date. You can't change the current date and time in Oracle; you have to change it at the OS level.

If, however, your aim is to determine things like "what's the date one week from today", then you can use Oracle's date arithmetic functionality (eg, "SYSDATE + 7" to determine the date one week from today).

hth

-arn

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Hi Gurus,

I need to change the sysdate in the database to a future date. Does anyone know the command to do it ? Please advise. Thanks.

Regds,
New Bee

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