Oracle-L: Re: time/date granularity

From: Tanel Poder <tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:39:31 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CC470.20030822103931@fatcity.com>

RE: time/date granularityYou can't even store sub second precision values in date datatype. Use timestamp instead (9i) or some custom format. In 8i you can have a java class which returns you date with high enough precision.

Tanel.

Original Message ----- From: Josh Collier To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 8:44 PM Subject: RE: time/date granularity

The issue at hand is this:

There is a column, setup_date that is populated by a trigger with sysdate after insert. Now the developers want to know if there is a way they can get the time of this date to a granularity of 10ths or 100ths of a second.

If I insert sysdate, can I then extract the centisecond or decisecond of that date/time?

Make sense?

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 10:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: time/date granularity

if you are pre 9i you can get up to 100th of a second using dbms_utility.get_time().

in post 9i, you can use systimestamp which will give you a microsecond if you wish.

Raj

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-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Collier [mailto:Josh.Collier_at_Banfield.net] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 1:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: time/date granularity

Hi,

Is there a way for me to get the time of a particular sysdate past the granularity of one second?

Thanks!

  Josh
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