Re: Get the date time from Oracle date time stamp?????

Ric wrote:

> I am using crystal reports to attempt to extract information from this
> database but I need to know which records were last updated. I have
> managed to find a field in Oracle and its value is based on a trigger
> function as shown below
>
> begin
>
> select TIMESTAMP_SEQ.nextval into :new.NURS_TIMESTAMP from dual;
>
> end;
>
> This at 9.45am (UK) on 05/09/2003 generated a value of 5,048,868
>
> My main expertise is in SQL Server, my question is can I reverse
> engineer this value to calculate the time? Or is it like an identity
> field in SQL server (i.e. An automatic incremental counter)
>
> I would really appreciate any help or pointers to some good web
> sources.
Oracle dates are always WITH time!
The obvious internal pseudo column would be sysdate:

:new.NURS_TIMESTAMP := sysdate

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Regards, Frank van Bortel