I guess you need to include the minutes as well:

   ... to_number(to_char(date_field, HH24:MISS')) > 140000

otherwise the time 14:25:00 will not be greater than 1400

Witold

> 
> 
> One way would be the following
> 
> SELECT ...
> FROM table
> WHERE TO_NUMBER(TO_CHAR(date_field,'HHSS')) > 1400;
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
> I need to do a select based upon the time element in a date column.
> i.e, eg where the time is greater than 14:00
> 
> Can anyone provide an example of how to do this?
> 
> John
> --

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