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I am working on migration of data from an old system to a new system. As part of migration, the data from the legacy system, (stored in files) is pumped into MS SQL Server. Now my app runs on Oracle. I’m having a problem with the date/timestamp.
The timestamp format in MS SQL Server data is:
2008.12.23 00:00:00
Oracle expects:
23/12/2008 00:00:00
or
23-DEC-2008 00:00:00
What would be the best way to import the data? Oracle’s to_date() function didn’t work as I thought it would.
I assume you’re using insert statements?
Convert your dates using: