RE: migrating a date and varchar field into 1 date field

From: Ken Naim <ken_at_clubmom.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:54:59 -0400
Message-ID: <80C5610EF23BD411935200508B5C35EB046F17BD@cmiechange>

Update tab1 set date_column= to_date
(to_char(date_column,'DDMMYYYY')||v2_col,'DDMMYYYYHH:Mi:SS);

Then just drop the varchar2 column. Also make sure that the format of your date mask above matches your varchar 2 column data

Kenneth Naim

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of ryan.gaffuri_at_comcast.net
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:46 AM
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Subject: migrating a date and varchar field into 1 date field

I'm migrating some old data from a progress database. I was given a data extract that was sql loaded into Oracle. I have two columns date_col (has the proper month,day,year) and is a date type time_col(has the proper time in minutes, seconds, etc...) and is a varchar field
anyway to dummy it up so I can get both of these into the same column? the date_col has an incorrect time of day.

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