New ANSI DATE literal. : Date « Data Type « Oracle PL / SQL

New ANSI DATE literal.

    

SQL>
SQL> CREATE TABLE T (
  2      c1  DATE,
  3      c2  TIMESTAMP,
  4      c3  TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE,
  5      c4  TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE
  6  );

Table created.

SQL>
SQL> DECLARE
  2
  3      v1  DATE;
  4      v2  TIMESTAMP;                
  5      v3  TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE; 
  6      v4  TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE;  
  7
  8  BEGIN
  9      v1 := DATE '2002-11-01';
 10      dbms_output.put_line(v1);
 11
 12  END;
 13  /
01-NOV-02

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>
SQL> select to_Char(c1, 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss'), c2,c3,c4 from t;

no rows selected

SQL> DROP TABLE T;

Table dropped.

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