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Old 01-30-02, 06:48
donaldt donaldt is offline
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Unhappy Timestamp query - Newbie

I am trying to query a timestamp field by date, can anyone help with some sample script pls.

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Old 01-30-02, 09:53
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Hello,

perhaps that is what you need:

select * from sys.all_objects
where to_date(timestamp, 'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss') = date_field

or

convert both to character via TO_CHAR.

But you lose the index when you do it in this way ...
Hope this helps ...

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