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Re: ORACLE-Internal-Date-Format

From: Roger Snowden <snowden_at_NOT.com>
Date: 1998/12/22
Message-ID: <367F00C6.6B8E5136@NOT.com>#1/1

Dates are stored as number types. Look under the SQL reference for more information. If you really want to get into the guts of it, create a single-row table with a date column, insert a date into it and go dump the thing out and play with it for a while.

Roger

Roger Snowden
Sr. Systems Engineering Specialist
Oracle Corporation
rsnowden_at_NOTus.oracle.com <-- to reply, remove the obvious

Reinhard Wahl wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how ORACLE stores Date-entries internal?
> Where can I find it in the documentation?
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Reinhard
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Received on Tue Dec 22 1998 - 00:00:00 CST

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