I suppose I could, I was hoping to avoid tkprof if possible, do you think abn estimated execution plan is sufficient to find out which is being converted to which? Thanks, Stephen From: Lothar Flatz <l.flatz@xxxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 10:13 AM Subject: Re: Force implicit data conversion Hi Stephen, how about doing a small test case? Look at the execution plan and you have your answer. Thanks Lothar Am 02.03.15 um 19:08 schrieb stephen van linge (Redacted sender swvanlinge@xxxxxxxxx for DMARC): Hi all, This is an academic question. Given a table A with column B (timestamp data type) and date parameter C, how can i force an implicit conversion within a select statement of B to date type? I'm looking at this: SELECT * FROM A WHERE B = C and I'm not sure if B is being converted to date, or if C is being converted to timestamp... Thanks, Stephen