Thank you all for the help. Anwar Saleh Khudhair ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Baker" <barb.baker@xxxxxxxxx> To: <anwarsk@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:35 AM Subject: Re: Date datatype > Anwar: > Regarding question 1: > The format of the date/time is controlled by the parameter > nls_date_format. > To see how it is currently set for your session: > > select * from nls_session_parameters > where parameter='NLS_DATE_FORMAT'; > > To change it, you can for example: > alter session set nls_date_format ='DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS'; > > HTH. > Barb > > > On Apr 5, 2005 10:32 AM, Anwar Khudhair <anwarsk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> Three questions about the Date datatype. Thanks in advance for your help. >> >> 1.. In SQLPlus, how can I display the full value of a date column? I >> mean date and time and not only the date. >> 2.. I'm trying the EXTRACT function. Year, month and day worked fine but >> not the hour, minute and second. How can I do it? >> 3.. I tried to add a numeric value from another field to a date column >> and it worked for the date. Is it possible to do the same thing with the >> time? >> >> Anwar Saleh Khudhair >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l