Peter, a short google search led me to http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Timestamp and http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/7100 untested, I hope they can give you some hints. Martin On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 17:42, Peter Hitchman <pjhoraclel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I need to get the value from a timestamp column from the block dump of > an IOT. I found via google how to use the UTL_RAW functions for > varchar and number columns. > Anyone know how to do this with a timestamp column? > > Thanks > Pete > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l