Oracle To_char() is an SQL function which will convert a number or date to string.
SQL Functions
SQL Functions
SQL REVERSE
SQL REVERSE function is used to return reverse of a string. It’s supported by MS SQL Server, MySQL. Oracle supports it too, but maybe not in the documents.
SQL LEFT Function
SQL LEFT() function is used to get left part of a string with the length of specified number. It is supported by MySQL, MS SQL Server, Access, but not by Oracle.
SQL DATENAME
SQL DATENAME() is a SQL Server function used to return the name or value of the specified datepart of the a date.
ORACLE TO_DATE
Oracle To_date() is an SQL function which will convert a string to date. In SQL Server we could use SQL CONVERT function to convert a string to date.
SQL CONVERT
The SQL CONVERT() is a SQL Server function which is used to convert a data type to another data type in general. We can also use this function to convert a date/time expression to different formats, or convert a formatted date/time string to date expression.
SQL EXTRACT (Oracle Function)
The SQL EXTRACT() function is used to get a value (year, month, day, etc.) from a date/time expression. It’s supported by MySQL and Oracle, but the syntax is different. In this post we’ll discuss it’s syntax and example in Oracle.