How to insert a timestamp in Oracle?

Question

I have an Oracle DB with a timestamp field in it. What is the correct SQL code to insert a timestamp into this field?

Answer 1

First of all you need to make the field Nullable, then after that so simple - instead of putting a value put this code CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.

Answer 2

Kind of depends on where the value you want to insert is coming from. If you want to insert the current time you can use CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as shown in other answers (or SYSTIMESTAMP).

If you have a time as a string and want to convert it to a timestamp, use an expression like

to_timestamp(:timestamp_as_string,'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS.FF3')

The time format components are, I hope, self-explanatory, except that FF3 means 3 digits of sub-second precision. You can go as high as 6 digits of precision.

If you are inserting from an application, the best answer may depend on how the date/time value is stored in your language. For instance you can map certain Java objects directly to a TIMESTAMP column, but you need to understand the JDBC type mappings.

Answer 3

One can simply use

INSERT INTO MY_TABLE(MY_TIMESTAMP_FIELD)
VALUES (TIMESTAMP '2019-02-15 13:22:11.871+02:00');

This way you won't have to worry about date format string, just use default timestamp format.

Works with Oracle 11, have no idea if it does for earlier Oracle versions.

Answer 4

INSERT INTO TABLE_NAME (TIMESTAMP_VALUE) VALUES (TO_TIMESTAMP('2014-07-02 06:14:00.742000000', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF'));