undskyld - excuses - entschuldigung - pardon - etcetera... the delimiter character between hours/minutes/seconds in these datetime literals should be a colon. so this is the right syntax: select * from mytable where delete_timestamp >= timestamp '2005-08-01 08:00:00.00' and delete_timestamp <= timestamp '2005-08-01 08:01:00.00'; even more readable :-) kind regards, Lex. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Adams Seminar <http://www.naturaljoin.nl/events/seminars.html> http://www.naturaljoin.nl/events/seminars.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lex de Haan Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 21:19 To: JHostetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: TIMESTAMP datatype. Anyone using them? ... or alternatively, use timestamp literals: select * from mytable where delete_timestamp >= timestamp '2005-08-01 08.00.00.00000' and delete_timestamp <= timestamp '2005-08-01 08.01.00.00000'; this is slightly more readable, independent of NLS settings, and you don't rely on Oracle for implicit datatype conversion.
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