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Asked: 2026-05-12T16:31:06+00:00

I need to select some values from an Informix database via Oracle ODBC. One

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I need to select some values from an Informix database via Oracle ODBC. One of the columns is a timestamp, and when I just select it all I see in SQL*Plus is the date value. How do I get the time as well?

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    By default SQL*Plus will display the date in the format specified by the NLS_DATE_FORMAT system parameter (client side). You can alter this behaviour by setting the NLS_DATE_FORMAT appropriately. You can also explicitly display the time data:

    SQL> select sysdate from dual;

SYSDATE
-----------
05/10/2009

SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'hh24:mi') from dual;

TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'HH24:MI')
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