Question

I have a query in PL/SQL on Oracle 10g that isn’t behaving as I thought. I’m 100% sure I am doing something silly so I’m sorry.. Here goes:

I have some data in a table that looks like this:

I then went to query but using the time element, like this:

select * from dw_time
where createdtime > to_date('2012/04/12 03:06:00', 'yyyy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss')

When this is executed we get records returned that include the rows in the image 03:05AM. So thinking it was the to_date function I checked that:

select  to_date('2012/04/12 10:24:00', 'yyyy/mm/dd hh:mi:ss')
from dual;

Now I was totally confused as it clearly know that as a time. So I tried it again:

select * from dw_time
where createdtime > to_date('2012/04/12 03:06:00', 'yyyy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss')

As you can see it is totally ignoring the time component! At this point I thought it was time to ask the gurus on here!

Many thanks

Mike

Answer 1

Is it possible that in your table ’12/4/2012′ means 4 Dec 2012 and query outputs it in MM/DD/YYYY format?