RE: Date conversion question

From: Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak_at_il.proquest.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:36:38 -0400
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Well, that depends on what those values actually represent...

Are they julian dates? Days/minutes/seconds since some epoch?

How would you convert 991123? What date does that represent? How about 421? 0?

Without knowing what the data means, we have no way to answer you....

-Mark

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Harvinder Singh Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 3:44 PM To: oracle-l
Subject: Date conversion question

Hi,

We have a flat file that contains a column and the values are stored as: 991123
421
60823
0
70930

Now we are moving data from flat file to table and this column will be inserted into Date dataype column, What is the way to insert into this table and avoid "ORA-01821: date format not recognized" errors.

Thanks
--Harvinder

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Wed Oct 03 2007 - 15:36:38 CDT