RE: Date conversion question

What is 70111?

Could be either 1 nov 1970
Or 11 januari 1970
With no way to distinguish based on this entry alone

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2007 6:47 AM
To: Bobak, Mark; oracle-l
Subject: RE: Date conversion question

Data is in format "yymmdd", for example
991123 (23 nov 1999)
421 (21 apr 1900)
60823 (23 aug 2006)
0 (1 jan 1900)
70930 (30 sep 2007)

Default Year 1900
Default Month 1
Default Day 1

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From: Bobak, Mark [mailto:Mark.Bobak_at_il.proquest.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 4:37 PM To: Harvinder Singh; oracle-l
Subject: RE: Date conversion question

Well, that depends on what those values actually represent...

Are they julian dates? Days/minutes/seconds since some epoch?

How would you convert 991123? What date does that represent? How about 421? 0?

Without knowing what the data means, we have no way to answer you....

-Mark

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Harvinder Singh Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 3:44 PM To: oracle-l
Subject: Date conversion question

Hi,

We have a flat file that contains a column and the values are stored as: 991123
421
60823
0
70930

Now we are moving data from flat file to table and this column will be inserted into Date dataype column, What is the way to insert into this table and avoid "ORA-01821: date format not recognized" errors.

Thanks
--Harvinder

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