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

From: Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak_at_il.proquest.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:54:45 -0400
Message-ID: <4C9B6FDA0B06FE4DAF5918BBF0AD82CF09660BB9@bosmail00.bos.il.pqe>

Ryan,

Seems to me, an expression like:
to_date(to_char(trunc(date_col),'YYYY-MM-DD')||' '||time_col,'YYYY-MM-DD = HH24:MI:SS')

would do the trick, assuming time_col is of the format 'HH24:MI:SS'. If = not, adjust
accordingly, but that's the idea.

-Mark

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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.=20

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