Question

I am trying to enter a date in oracle database using to_date in preparedStatement but I am getting errors.

Code Fragments:

sql = "select Identifier from metadata where content_cdate >=to_date(?,'dd-mm-yyyy') and content_cdate < to_date(?,'dd-mm-yyyy') and status='published' and content_mdate is null";

ps.setString(1, commonUtil.dateToString(startTime));

the dateToString method returns a value like this: 2012-01-01 12:00:00

Error:

[Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-01861: literal does not match format string

Please advice.

Answer 1

You should use a correct TO_DATE format mask to match your input.

In your case most likely: TO_DATE(?,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')