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pickle
11-18-2002, 05:40 AM
How do you insert a null value into a date field? I've tried to use 'null' and ' ' but there's an error. How do you do it?

Thanks in advance.

ales
11-18-2002, 05:53 AM
Just use null, nothing more, nothing less:
scott@oracle> create table d (dd date);

Table created.

scott@oracle> insert into d values(null);

1 row created.

pickle
11-18-2002, 06:09 AM
Thanks for the answer


:D

bensr
11-19-2002, 01:33 AM
In case of nulls it is a good practice to use
explicit conversion:
insert into d values(to_date(null));