1.日期和字符轉換函數用法(to_date,to_char)
select to_char(sysdate,'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss') as nowTime from dual;
//日期轉化為字符串
select to_char(sysdate,'yyyy') as nowYear from dual; //獲取時間的年
select to_char(sysdate,'mm') as nowMonth from dual; //獲取時間的月
select to_char(sysdate,'dd') as nowDay from dual; //獲取時間的日
select to_char(sysdate,'hh24') as nowHour from dual; //獲取時間的時
select to_char(sysdate,'mi') as nowMinute from dual; //獲取時間的分
select to_char(sysdate,'ss') as nowSecond from dual; //獲取時間的秒
select to_date('2004-05-07 13:23:44','yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss') from dual//
2. select to_char( to_date(222,'J'),'Jsp') from dual
顯示Two Hundred Twenty-Two
3. 求某天是星期幾
select to_char(to_date('2002-08-26','yyyy-mm-dd'),'day') from dual;
星期一
select to_char(to_date('2002-08-26','yyyy-mm-dd'),'day','NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE = American') from dual;
monday
設置日期語言
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE='AMERICAN';
也可以這樣
TO_DATE ('2002-08-26', 'YYYY-mm-dd', 'NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE = American')
4. 兩個日期間的天數
select floor(sysdate - to_date('20020405','yyyymmdd')) from dual;
5. 時間為null的用法
select id, active_date from table1
UNION
select 1, TO_DATE(null) from dual;
注意要用TO_DATE(null)
6.月份差
a_date between to_date('20011201','yyyymmdd') and to_date('20011231','yyyymmdd')
那么12月31號中午12點之后和12月1號的12點之前是不包含在這個范圍之內的。
所以,當時間需要精確的時候,to_char還是必要的