Re: Time - hundreds??
From: Scott Urman <surman_at_oracle.com>
Date: 1996/05/17
Message-ID: <4nic31$s5g_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>#1/1
Date: 1996/05/17
Message-ID: <4nic31$s5g_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>#1/1
In article <BEH.395.0007E0FE_at_csd.uwm.edu>, BEH_at_csd.uwm.edu (Barbara Hiles) writes:
|> Does Oracle date/time include hundreds? I can get hh:mi:ss - we need the
|> next lower level.
|> TIA - Barb.
The DATE datatype does not store hundreds of a second - seconds are the lowest granualurity. I would recommend using another datatype, such as VARCHAR2 (or a combination). You could do something like
DATE (up to seconds) + NUMBER (hundreds) or one VARCHAR2 in some format like HH24:MI:SS:<hundreds>
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