how to insert date and time in oracle?
OracleOracle Problem Overview
Im having trouble inserting a row in my table. Here is the insert statement and table creation. This is part of a uni assignment hence the simplicity, what am i doing wrong? Im using oracle SQL developer Version 3.0.04.'
The problem i am having is that it is only inserting the dd/mon/yy but not the time. How do i get it to insert the time as well?
INSERT INTO WORKON (STAFFNO,CAMPAIGNTITLE,DATETIME,HOURS)
VALUES ('102','Machanic Summer Savings',TO_DATE('22/April/2011 8:30:00AM','DD/MON/YY HH:MI:SSAM'),'3')
;
CREATE TABLE WorkOn
(
StaffNo NCHAR(4),
CampaignTitle VARCHAR(50),
DateTime DATE,
Hours VARCHAR(2)
)
;
Thanks for the help.
EDIT: This is making no sense, i enter just a time in the field to test if time is working and it outputs a date WTF? This is really weird i may not use a date field and just enter the time in, i realise this will result in issues manipulating the data but this is making no sense...
Oracle Solutions
Solution 1 - Oracle
You can use
insert into table_name
(date_field)
values
(TO_DATE('2003/05/03 21:02:44', 'yyyy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss'));
Hope it helps.
Solution 2 - Oracle
You are doing everything right by using a to_date function and specifying the time. The time is there in the database. The trouble is just that when you select a column of DATE datatype from the database, the default format mask doesn't show the time. If you issue a
alter session set nls_date_format = 'dd/MON/yyyy hh24:mi:ss'
or something similar including a time component, you will see that the time successfully made it into the database.
Solution 3 - Oracle
Try this:
...(to_date('2011/04/22 08:30:00', 'yyyy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss'));
Solution 4 - Oracle
Just use TO_DATE()
function to convert string to DATE
.
For Example:
create table Customer(
CustId int primary key,
CustName varchar(20),
DOB date);
insert into Customer values(1,'Vishnu', TO_DATE('1994/12/16 12:00:00', 'yyyy/mm/dd hh:mi:ss'));
Solution 5 - Oracle
create table Customer(
CustId int primary key,
CustName varchar(20),
DOB date);
insert into Customer values(1,'kingle', TO_DATE('1994-12-16 12:00:00', 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mi:ss'));