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On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:55:53 GMT, you wrote:
>Hi friends,
>
>I have a table containing two fields,
>
>adate date
>atime varchar2(8)
>
>Sample data:-
>
>adate atime
>10-Jan-1999 12:00:00 10:30:50
>10-Jan-1999 12:00:00 13:30:10
>12-Jan-1999 12:00:00 09:30:00
>
>Could anyone let me the syntax for updating time part of field adate
>with atime?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
update T
set adate = to_date( to_char(adate,'ddmmyyyy') || atime, 'ddmmyyyyhh23:mi:ss' )
should do it. convert the date into a string, concatenate the time onto the string and use to_date to convert the new string with the date and time into a date...
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