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Oracle datatype to store ONLY DATE without time [message #388962] Thu, 26 February 2009 15:54 Go to next message
Ricky_1362002
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hi all...

I was asked recently to create a table with one of the column with date datatype and yes i created it.

The developers performed some insertions with 'sysdate' into that column, and as they inserted 'sysdate', it showed date and time when queried, later they came to me and asked that they want only date to get inserted and not the time.

Is there any data type in Oracle which will store only DATE without time when we insert 'sysdate' into a column.

For now i have told them to use the trim function which will give only date, but is there any other solution?

please help...


thanks,
munna
Re: Oracle datatype to store ONLY DATE without time [message #388971 is a reply to message #388962] Thu, 26 February 2009 17:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
BlackSwan
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TRUNC(SYSDATE)
Re: Oracle datatype to store ONLY DATE without time [message #388978 is a reply to message #388971] Thu, 26 February 2009 19:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ricky_1362002
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TRUNC(SYSDATE)
is that a data type?
Re: Oracle datatype to store ONLY DATE without time [message #388979 is a reply to message #388962] Thu, 26 February 2009 19:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
BlackSwan
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Are you incapable or unwilling to Read The Fine Manual?
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/functions201.htm#sthref2425

You need to help us by following the Posting Guidelines as stated below.
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Re: Oracle datatype to store ONLY DATE without time [message #389035 is a reply to message #388962] Fri, 27 February 2009 01:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Frank
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Oracle has no internal date-only datatype.
Re: Oracle datatype to store ONLY DATE without time [message #389171 is a reply to message #388962] Fri, 27 February 2009 08:36 Go to previous message
JRowbottom
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Option 1) Add a trigger onto the table that fires on insert/update of each date column, and which truncates the date to remove the time component.

Option 2) Add a check constraint to each date column of the form CONSTRAINT <constraint_name> CHECK (trunc(date_col) = date_col)
This will error any time they try to insert data with a time component into the Db.

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