Now that's great! Here is my contribution, pasted directly from
SQL Reference:
TIMESTAMP (fractional_seconds_precision)
        

Year, month, and day values of date, as well as hour, minute, and second values of 
time, where fractional_seconds_precision is the number of digits in the fractional 
part of the SECOND datetime field. Accepted values of fractional_seconds_precision are 
0 to 9. The default is 6.


Essentially, you know now how many microseconds have passed since 1.1.1970. and that 
is 
the information that not many human beings posses. It changes about 1 million times 
every
second.

On 12/16/2003 05:09:25 PM, "Nguyen, David M" wrote:
> Now I got.
> 
>  
> 
> USER_NAME             TIME STAMP
> 
> --------------------              ----------------------
> 
> eholley                       1069716948959
> 
> jmdavis                       1069715246467
> 
> jmdavis                       1069715324466
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Bobak, Mark
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:54 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
>  
> 
> Since it's a NUMBER datatype, try:
> 
> SQL>  column time_stamp format 99999999999999999999
> 
> SQL>  select user_name, time_stamp from USER_ACTIVITY_LOG;
> 
>  
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: Nguyen, David M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>       Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 4:39 PM
>       To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>       Subject: Unreadable time_stamp format
> 
>       I need to view time_stamp column in USER_ACTIVITY_LOG table but
> it displays unreadable format as shown below.  Is there a way to decode
> it to be readable?
> 
>       SQL> desc USER_ACTIVITY_LOG
> 
>        Name                                      Null?    Type
> 
>        ----------------------------------------- --------
> ----------------------------
> 
>        TIME_STAMP                              NOT NULL NUMBER(20)
> 
>        NODE_NAME                               NOT NULL VARCHAR2(20)
> 
>        USER_NAME                                NOT NULL VARCHAR2(20)
> 
>        CLIENT_IP                                    NOT NULL
> VARCHAR2(15)
> 
>        DESCRIPTION                              NOT NULL
> VARCHAR2(2048)
> 
>        
> 
>       SQL>select user_name, time_stamp from USER_ACTIVITY_LOG;
> 
>       edscott              1.0693E+12
> 
>       edscott              1.0693E+12
> 
>       edscott              1.0693E+12
> 
>       edscott              1.0693E+12
> 
>       jmdavis              1.0693E+12
> 
>       edscott              1.0693E+12
> 
>       edscott              1.0693E+12
> 
>       Thanks,
>       David
> 
> 

Mladen Gogala
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