Re: Date format is unreadable

David, try setting numwidth in sqlplus... (for example)

 1* create table dtest (col1 varchar2(20), col2 number(20)) SQL> / Table created.

SQL> insert into dtest values('8888888888888888888','88888888888888888888');

1 row created.

SQL> select * from dtest;

COL1                       COL2
-------------------- ----------
8888888888888888888  8.8889E+19

SQL> set numwidth 20
SQL> /

COL1                                 COL2
-------------------- --------------------
8888888888888888888  88888888888888888888

SQL>
>>> david.m.nguyen_at_xo.com 03/05/03 02:29PM >>>
I try to query a report to check user activity but I could not read date column. Is there a way to reformat the column to be readable? Date colum calls "time_stamp" as shown below.  

SQL> desc user_activity_log

 Name                                      Null?    Type          

 ----------------------------------------- -------- --------------

 TIME_STAMP                                NOT NULL NUMBER(20)    

 NODE_NAME                                 NOT NULL VARCHAR2(20)  

 USER_NAME                                 NOT NULL VARCHAR2(20)  

 CLIENT_IP                                 NOT NULL VARCHAR2(15)  

 DESCRIPTION                               NOT NULL VARCHAR2(2048)

 

 

SQL> select user_name,client_ip,node_name,time_stamp from user_activity_log

     where user_name = 'admin'

     order by time_stamp;  

USER_NAME CLIENT_IP NODE_NAME TIME_STAMP

• --------------- -------------------- ----------

admin                NA              Insight Server       1.0397E+12

admin                NA              Insight Server       1.0402E+12

admin                NA              Insight Server       1.0433E+12

 

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