Subject: RE: Date conversion question 2007-10-03 - By Bobak, Mark
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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@(protected) [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@(protected)] 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 (See http://ORA-01821.ora-code.com): date format not recognized" errors.
Thanks
--Harvinder
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