Re: Oracle date format question

From: Philip Douglass <philip.douglass_at_il.proquest.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:48:55 -0400
Message-ID: <00dc01c427d1$4ce71fc0$8c5d2bcf@sirs.com>

I'd do a to_date(stringdatecol, 'yyyy/mm/dd hh24') first of all, to make sure the data is at least a valid date. Then you could to_char(validdate, 'yyyy'), to_char(validdate, 'mm') to pull out the information you're interested in.

• Original Message ----- From: "Smith, Ron L." <rlsmith_at_kmg.com> To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:36 PM Subject: Oracle date format question

I have a varchar column with data in the format yyyy/mm/dd hh . I need to pull the year and the month into separate fields so I can select and group them.
Can anyone tell me the easiest way to do this?

Thanks!
Ron=20

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