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Re: how to declare type data

From: <davide_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 6 Nov 2001 15:02:03 GMT
Message-ID: <9s8u18$11pnkr$1@ID-18487.news.dfncis.de> 





Sergio Cotti <sergiof31_at_hotmail.com> wrote:


> and i want to specify the format of the Date type.




The type DATE is stored internally as a number, you can insert values
of type "date" using TO_DATE(...) and converting whatever information
you have into a date, specifing this way the date/time. Then you can
use TO_CHAR in the select instruction to retrive the same data in the
format you like.



Davide
Received on Tue Nov 06 2001 - 09:02:03 CST












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