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   Frank van Bortel to deadlocklegend@gmail.com   
   Re: format date with Oracle Dynamic SQL   
   01 Mar 05 22:43:23   
   
   From: fvanbortel@netscape.net   
      
   deadlocklegend@gmail.com wrote:   
   > we are dynamically retrieving data types of a dynamic query and build   
   > an XML resultset. to_char i believe gives us a string type when we   
   > wanted a date type for that field.  Is there a way to do it?   
   >   
   to_date(string, format_mask)   
      
   What other documentation shall I read you?   
      
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   Frank van Bortel   
      
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