Question

I’m trying to import some data (using oracle sql developer) from a .csv file but I’m getting an error as :-

Verifying if the Date columns have date formats FAILED Date columns … column names

the date in my .csv file is :

2008-01-09 15:59:23.187

I have tried giving this format but it doesn’t work (in the data importing wizard)

yyyy-mm-dd HH24:mi:ss.ff3

I’m trying to figure out a solution expecting some help.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I can’t test right now but I’m taking a guess: the format is not a DATE format but a TIMESTAMP format. Consider:

SQL> select to_date('2008-01-09 15:59:23.187', 
  2                 'yyyy-mm-dd HH24:mi:ss.ff3') from dual;

ORA-01821: date format not recognized

SQL> select to_timestamp('2008-01-09 15:59:23.187', 
  2                      'yyyy-mm-dd HH24:mi:ss.ff3') ts from dual;

TS
-------------------------------------------------
09/01/08 15:59:23,187000000

If this is the same error that SQL Dev encounters, you could import in a timestamp column.