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ORA-01830 when Using the TO_DATE() Function (Doc ID 1014061.6)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.5.0 to 10.2.0.1 [Release 8.1.5 to 10.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

The SQL*Plus user encounters the following error when attempting to reformat and display a date by applying a date picture (format mask) to a string literal argument to the TO_DATE() function.
 
ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire input string

Changes

 NA

Cause

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