RE: migrating a date and varchar field into 1 date field

  • From: Ken Naim <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:54:59 -0400

Update tab1 set date_column= to_date
(to_char(date_column,'DDMMYYYY')||v2_col,'DDMMYYYYHH:Mi:SS);

Then just drop the varchar2 column. Also make sure that the format of your
date mask above matches your varchar 2 column data

Kenneth Naim


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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:46 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: migrating a date and varchar field into 1 date field

I'm migrating some old data from a progress database. I was given a data
extract that was sql loaded into Oracle. I have two columns
date_col (has the proper month,day,year) and is a date type
time_col(has the proper time in minutes, seconds, etc...) and is a varchar
field
anyway to dummy it up so I can get both of these into the same column? the
date_col has an incorrect time of day. 
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