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 Originally Posted by ramdaya
the date in oracle is stored in seconds
Since Oracle stores DATE datatype in seven bytes - Century, Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minutes, Seconds - I assume you are saying somebody designed a database where for some unknown reason decided to convert dates to seconds then store that value in a NUMBER or so datatype, is that correct?
If that's the case that person most probably created a set of functions to deal with that particular design feature -look at functions.
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