updating timestamp column with timestamp containing 'T'

Question

I have timestamp column:

MAX_LOAD_DATE_TS  TIMESTAMP(6)

My load_dates comes formatted with T in between date and

Answer 1

You can use the appropriate format string as well as the CAST function, as below:

SELECT 
        CAST(TO_DATE('2014-07-02T10:46:22', 'YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SS') AS TIMESTAMP(6)) AS timestamp_value
FROM table;

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Answer 2

You can embed literals in the format string if they're double-quoted:

select to_timestamp('2014-07-02T10:46:22', 'YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SS') from dual;

TO_TIMESTAMP('2014-07-02T10:46:22','YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SS')
-------------------------------------------------------------
02-JUL-14 10.46.22.000000000                                  

That works with to_date() as well as to_timestamp(), and with to_char() going the other way.

This is mentioned in the documentation:

Punctuation and Character Literals in Datetime Format Models

You can include these characters in a date format model:

• Punctuation such as hyphens, slashes, commas, periods, and colons
• Character literals, enclosed in double quotation marks

These characters appear in the return value in the same location as they appear in the format model.