No, sorry for the confusion, to update the date field with time poritons
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Browse All Topicsoracle 8.1 database has date column but it shows time portions also, when we update the field there is necessity to update this field with custom time stamp, is that possible to do?
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by: angelIIIPosted on 2007-03-06 at 10:01:51ID: 18663839
>custom time stamp
you mean, to display date values in a custom format?
yes, when querying:
select to_char(your_date_field, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')
from yourtable;
for example. check out the to_char function about more format values.