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Re: Use of SYSDATE for millisecond timing.

From: Dave Haas <davehaas_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:26:26 -0700
Message-ID: <91u7bd$7b2$1@news3.cadvision.com>

Nope. Since the Oracle DATE datatype only records down to the second, that's all you get with sysdate. You either need to go Java (if 8i) or external.

Dave

<jsicore_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:91u311$10u$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Is there any way to improve the precision (<1 sec.) of SYSDATE?
> I can only perform measurements on SYSDATE down to the second, anything
> less causes rounding to the second.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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Received on Thu Dec 21 2000 - 18:26:26 CST

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