RE: time/date granularity

[Jamadagni, Rajendra]

Title: RE: time/date granularity

Josh,

 

sysdate has the granularity of a second only. You might want to add a new column for fractional seconds or change the column datatype to systimestamp;

 

if you create new column, you can just add the fractional part as follows ...

 

create or replace trigger ...

after insert into my_table ...

where ...

begin

  :new.frac_seconds := to_char(systimestamp,'FFF');

end;

/

 

HTHS

Raj

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-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Collier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 1:44 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: time/date granularity

The issue at hand is this:

 

There is a column, setup_date that is populated by a trigger with sysdate after insert. Now the developers want to know if there is a way they can get the time of this date to a granularity of 10ths or 100ths of a second.

 

If I insert sysdate, can I then extract the centisecond or decisecond of that date/time?

 

Make sense?

 

Thanks

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 10:30 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: time/date granularity

if you are pre 9i you can get up to 100th of a second using dbms_utility.get_time().

in post 9i, you can use systimestamp which will give you a microsecond if you wish.

Raj
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-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Collier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 1:20 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: time/date granularity

Hi,

Is there a way for me to get the time of a particular sysdate past the
granularity of one second?

Thanks!

Josh
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