Using Oracle to_date function for date string with milliseconds

Question

I have to perform some inserts into an Oracle DB. I have some dates in the following format

\'23.12.2011 13:01:001\'

Following the documen

Answer 1

TO_DATE supports conversion to DATE datatype, which doesn't support milliseconds. If you want millisecond support in Oracle, you should look at TIMESTAMP datatype and TO_TIMESTAMP function.

Hope that helps.