oracle insert only time [duplicate]

Answer 1

A DATE type always includes the date component.

One option is to continue using DATE and write your code to ignore the date component. In order to make queries on the time efficient, you might want to create a function-based index on something like TO_CHAR( date_field, 'HH24:MI:SS' ) and use that expression in your queries.

Alternatively, you could use a NUMBER field to store the number of seconds since midnight, and write your queries in terms of that.

Answer 2

As an alternative to the date solution Dave shows, you could use an interval data type for the column:

create table t42(id number, t interval day to second);

insert into t42 (id, t) values(123, to_dsinterval('0 07:39:33'));
insert into t42 (id, t) values(456, to_dsinterval('0 09:34:00'));

select id
from t42
where t between to_dsinterval('0 07:00:00') and to_dsinterval('0 07:59:59');

    ID
----------
       123

Displaying intervals is a little awkward as they don't have format models, but see this question for some ideas if needed. If you only use them for filtering then that may not be an issue at all.

Answer 3

you can use number column type and insert value as

INSERT INTO table_name (nTime) 
   VALUES (date - trunc(date));

and then select values

select * 
  from table_name t
 where t.nTime between (10 / 24 + 15 / 24 / 60) and (12 / 24 + 30 / 24 / 60) --between 10:15 and 12:30