Oracle - Dealing with Dates

on Wednesday, February 13, 2008

When using Oracle, it is very normal to deal with date, date conversion, date manipulation. Below is a quick guide on how to use them properly.


  • trunc key words - trunc keywords is useful to eliminate the time field of the datetime column. You format the time field to a specific format you want also. For example, trunc(date_column); trunc()


Below is the table that shows the format parameters:



















































Unit Valid format parameters
Year SYYYY, YYYY, YEAR, SYEAR, YYY, YY, Y
ISO Year IYYY, IY, I
Quarter Q
Month MONTH, MON, MM, RM
Week WW
IW IW
W W
Day DDD, DD, J
Start day of the week DAY, DY, D
Hour HH, HH12, HH24
Minute MI

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