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Specifying minute as optional in to_date

user13178950Jun 25 2013 — edited Apr 21 2017

Hi,

I have a DB column which stores the start time for one of my functionalities.The starttime can be stored as either 7AM or 7:00AM or it can be 7AM or 7:30AM and so on. That is the column can be of the format either HH:MIAM or HHAM. Now the problem is - the format i have given in the query is as below HHAM and this is throwing an error which i assume is due to the difference in format

select to_DATE(start_time,'HH:MIAM') works for 7:00AM

select to_DATE(start_time,'HHAM') works for 7AM

Is there anyway i can specify the 'minute' as optional in format so that a single query returns both 7AM and 7:30AM.Or how can i make this work in Oracle.I would require my query to return both results.Is there any way oracle will append : 00 if it finds that the time doesnt have minute specified.

Thanks in advance for the help,
This post has been answered by Frank Kulash on Jun 27 2013
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