RE: migrating a date and varchar field into 1 date field
- From: "Powell, Mark D" <mark.powell@xxxxxxx>
- To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:55:29 -0400
If you have already loaded the table it reads to me like all you need to do
is update the date_col for the time value held in the varchar2 column. If
the time is formatted like "12:15:30" then something like:
update my_table
set date_col = to_date(to_char(date_col,'YYYYMMDD')||' '||
time_col,'YYYYMMDD HH24:MI:SS')
where ......
Depending on the exact format of the data, and my nearly limitless ability
to mistype statements some minor modification may be required.
HTH -- Mark D Powlel --
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Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:46 AM
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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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