Oracle SQL “SELECT DATE from DATETIME field ”

Question

I have field REPORTDATE (DATETIME). In SQL Developer i can see its value in this format

29.10.2013 17:08:08

I found that in order to do the select o

Answer 1

Use this:

SELECT trunc(REPORTDATE, 'DD') AS my_date
FROM TABLE1

This will not change the type of the returning object, only truncates everything below "day" level.

If you are ok with returning a String, then you can just do:

SELECT TO_CHAR(REPORTDATE, 'DD.MM.YYYY') AS my_date
FROM TABLE1