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OCI : How To Decode DATE Avoiding TO_CHAR() Function (Doc ID 1349901.1)

Last updated on JUNE 27, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.0.6.0 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

This note describes how to decode DATE datatype by avoiding TO_CHAR() using OCI. Fetching a DATE datatype using OCI requires to allocate a chunk of 4 unsigned bytes  (ub1) as bind variable. To decode day, month and year following equations have to be used: 

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