Question

When I do a query SELECT t.NAME, t.SOME_DATE FROM MY_TABLE t in toad I get dates as 14-FEB-13 with no time information! In the table browser it gives full date and time. How can this be changed?

Answer 1

That is the default setting for a session. If you want to change it,

ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT='DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS';

Or, change your query to

SELECT t.NAME, to_char(t.SOME_DATE,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') FROM MY_TABLE t

( the above is just an example, you can format whatever way you want in the format string, ie. ‘MM/DD/YYYY, etc.)