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Asked: 2026-06-09T23:17:33+00:00

I have the below SQL query select to_date(start_date, ‘dd-Mon-yy’) AS start_date FROM table I

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I have the below SQL query

select to_date(start_date, 'dd-Mon-yy') AS start_date FROM table

I also have the below ResultSet objects (rs)

rs.getDate("start_date")

When I run the query in SQL developer directly against the database (Oracle) the format is returned as expected (08-AUG-12), but when I run the query in my Java app using JDBC it prints out as 2012-08-08.

Am I getting the format the correct way? Should I just select on the column (date datatype) and then format via JodaTime’s DateTimeFormatter? I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong here.

The same thing happens when I convert from java.sql.Date to java.util.Date…

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  1. Editorial Team

    Database format is not taken in consideration when you are dealing with a Date object in Java. If you want to match exactly the format that you have on your function, you can use TO_CHAR, and fetch the column as a String.

    Alternatively, you keep fetching the column as Date, and then format it accordingly with DateTimeFormatter, for example.

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