Snippet Name: TO_DSINTERVAL
Description: Converts a character string of CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, or NVARCHAR2 datatype to an INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND value.
char is the character string to be converted.
The only valid nlsparam you can specify in this function is NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS. This argument can have the form:
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS = "dg"
where d and g represent the decimal character and group separator respectively. Neither character can be a space.
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» Converting Rows to Columns
» UNISTR
» TRANSLATE
» TO_YMINTERVAL
» TO_TIMESTAMP_TZ
» TO_TIMESTAMP
» TO_SINGLE_BYTE
» TO_NUMBER
» TO_NCLOB
» TO_NCHAR
» TO_MULTI_BYTE
» TO_LOB
» TO_DATE
» TO_CLOB
» TO_CHAR
» TO_BINARY_FLOAT
» TO_BINARY_DOUBLE
» TIMESTAMP_TO_SCN
» SCN_TO_TIMESTAMP
» ROWIDTONCHAR
» ROWIDTOCHAR
» REFTOHEX
» RAWTONHEX
» RAWTOHEX
» NUMTOYMINTERVAL
» NUMTODSINTERVAL
» HEXTORAW
» DECOMPOSE
» CONVERT
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Language: PL/SQL
Highlight Mode: PLSQL
Last Modified: March 05th, 2009
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TO_DSINTERVAL(<date_string>, <format mask>, <NLS_PARAMETER>)
-- select from the employees table all employees who
-- worked for the company for at least 100 days on
-- January 1, 1990:
SELECT employee_id, last_name FROM employees
WHERE hire_date + TO_DSINTERVAL('100 10:00:00')
<= DATE '1990-01-01';
EMPLOYEE_ID LAST_NAME
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100 King
101 Kochhar
200 Whalen
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