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Ryan,
Seems to me, an expression like:
to_date(to_char(trunc(date_col),'YYYY-MM-DD')||' '||time_col,'YYYY-MM-DD =
HH24:MI:SS')
would do the trick, assuming time_col is of the format 'HH24:MI:SS'. If =
not, adjust
accordingly, but that's the idea.
-Mark
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Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:46 AM
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Subject: migrating a date and varchar field into 1 date field
I'm migrating some old data from a progress database. I was given a data =
extract that was sql loaded into Oracle. I have two columns
date_col (has the proper month,day,year) and is a date type
time_col(has the proper time in minutes, seconds, etc...) and is a =
varchar field
anyway to dummy it up so I can get both of these into the same column? =
the date_col has an incorrect time of day.=20
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