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Oracle stores only the fractions up to second in a DATE field. Use TIMESTAMP instead: SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP(‘2004-09-30 23:53:48,140000000’, ‘YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS,FF9’) FROM dual , possibly casting it to a DATE then: SELECT CAST(TO_TIMESTAMP(‘2004-09-30 23:53:48,140000000’, ‘YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS,FF9’) AS DATE) FROM dual

An Oracle DATE does not store times with more precision than a second. You cannot store millisecond precision data in a DATE column. Your two options are to either truncate the string of the milliseconds before converting it into a DATE, i.e. to_date( substr(‘23.12.2011 13:01:001’, 1, 19), ‘DD.MM.YYYY HH24:MI:SS’ ) or to convert the string … Read more