Re: Porting dates to oracle

A wild guess (I have never done, but I guess you could do it) - you can create your data type - date with milliseconds (object option).

Djordje

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From: Shreepad.Vaidya_at_alltel.com <Shreepad.Vaidya_at_alltel.com> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Date: Thursday, July 27, 2000 2:23 AM
Subject: Porting dates to oracle

>
>
>Hi,
>One of my friend wants to port data from decrdb ( database on DEC machines)
to
>Oracle.
>The date format on that database also stores milliseconds.
>
>Whereas to my knowledge Oracle does not store milliseconds in its date
format .
>
>1) Is there a way to port the dates into Oracle.
>2) The dates cannot be discarded or converted to non-date format because a
lot
>of reports are based on the dates and the milliseconds factor.
>
>
> Thanks
> shreepad
>
>
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Received on Thu Jul 27 2000 - 06:48:58 CDT