ORA-01843 not a valid month- Comparing Dates

Question

I have a problem when try to select data from a table filtering by date.

For example:

SELECT * FROM MYTABLE WHERE MYTABLE.DATEIN = \'23         


        

Answer 1

If you are using command line tools, then you can also set it in the shell.

On linux, with a sh type shell, you can do for example:

export NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT='DD/MON/RR HH24:MI:SSXFF'

Then you can use the command line tools and it will use the specified format:

/path/to/dbhome_1/bin/sqlldr user/pass@host:port/service control=table.ctl direct=true