In my Java code I get another date of same type as:
String resDate = rs.getString(”RESDATE”);
//then i format resDate as “MM/dd/yyyy hh:mi:ss” but i dont get the AM/PM part so following qry fails and returns no records.

In my Java code I have to compare the date using qry:
“select * from REQ_ENTRY where REQDATE = to_date(’”+ resDate + “‘,’MM/DD/RR HH12:MI:SS PM’)”

Please reply …..

You should be able to make this work but you will want to group by a slightly different criteria than you sort by. It should be something like this:

select to_char(activity_date, ‘MON’) month
from accounts
group by month
order by to_char(activity_date, ‘MM’);

That should give you the three letter date in the output. By using an alias for the column we can reuse the column in the group by statement but in the order by statement we perform a separate to_char to get the month as a number so it will sort properly.

Hope this helps.

Most developers will accomplish this by using numbers to represent hour, minute and second. You could instead use the DATE datatype and ignore the day, month and year on your selects, but sorting will become difficult, especially since if you do not specify day, month and year on the insert Oracle will default to the first day of the current month.

Hope this helps.

Can I insert data of date type which consists of time only (without date) and later querying the data by specifying time only ? In essence, I only care about time not date.

Thx in advance,

Setya