sql not a valid month error in sql command line - oracle11g

Actually I was trying to get all columns within a date range in Oracle db and I am successful in doing so in SQL Developer but when I execute the same code in SQL command line interface I get an error
ORA-01843 : not a valid month
I know its an error which comes in to_date format but it gets executed in SQL developer as exactly I expected but not in SQL command line. Why does this happen??
select to_date('01/04/2020') from dual;
Even this command is not working.
I had tried all format methods for the to_date method conversion and I checked nls_date_format which shows 'DD-MM-RR'

I'd suggest you to always provide appropriate format mask. Don't rely on Oracle implicitly converting & guessing what you wanted to do.
String that looks like '01/04/20' could be anything, depending on format you used (dd/mm/yy, yy/dd/mm, mm/yy/dd ... all of that is valid, but only one is correct).
SQL> alter session set nls_Date_format = 'dd-mm-rr';
Session altered.
SQL> select to_date('01/04/2020', 'dd/mm/yyyy') result from dual;
RESULT
------------------------------
01-04-20
SQL>

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Microsoft Database Project - How to change column type and avoid data loss error

I am trying to change the type of a column from VARCHAR to INT.
During the deployment, the database project will stop the deployment due to the "data loss" error:
RAISERROR (N'Rows were detected. The schema update is terminating because data loss might occur.', 16, 127)
I know the data is convertible and if I run a manual ALTER TABLE script it will be fine. However, I cannot integrate that properly with this scenario to avoid the error during the deployment.
What is your solution to resolve my problem?
Is there a method
to override this behaviour in a database project and for this
particular case, use a custom script?
One way in such scenario is using PreDeployment script and deploy twice.
Change data type column in table definition as usual
Add in Predeploy script:
-- this script has to be idempotent, and removed after some time
IF EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'table_name'
AND TABLE_SCHEMA = 'schema_name'
AND COLUMN_NAME = 'column_name
AND DATA_TYPE != 'INT'
)
BEGIN
ALTER TABLE schema_name.table_name ALTER COLUMN Column_name INT NULL/NOT NULL;
END
First publish will change the data type during PreDeploy, and deploy will fail with Potential Data loss error.
Second publish will omit the part of PreDeploy(if condition), and schema compare does not detect any changes, meaning it has been changed.
Next step should be removing the manual part from PreDeployment script.

MYSQL syntax for if with data stored in the database

i want to create in mysql an event schedule every day that check
if the current date is greater than a date stored in the database table and then call some store procedures.
Reading my WRONG mysql code you will understand that i want to do:
delimiter $
set global event_scheduler = on$
create event if not exists `end_qualifications`
on schedule
every day
do
begin
if curdate() >= (select `end_date` from `round` where `nome` =
"qualifications")
then
/* call myprocedure(params); */
end if;
end $
delimiter ;
I found here If-statement in the MySQL stored procedure for selecting data something similar, but there is not way my code work as i want.
I'm a beginner with mysql so it's possible that what i want to do can't be done.
Anyone knows how to make my code work?
I'm using MySQL client version: 5.7.25
EDITED: this is the error i get when i try to run the query
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the
manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right
syntax to use near 'do
begin
if curdate() >= (select `end_date` from `round` where `nome` =
"q' at line 5
I don't know if it matters, but the database is empty for now.

Crystal reports parameters using a command to an Oracle database

I am trying to create a report that has three optional parameters using a command in Crystal Reports 2008. The only one I can't get to work is the date parameter (seems Oracle does not treat dates the same as SQL Server).
I want the user to be able to pick and choose which parameter they would like to use; one, two, or all three. It works beautifully when I run it in TOAD and hard code the dates, but it will not run in Crystal reports using the syntax to create the parameters.
I have done this a thousand times in a SQL server environment but can't get it to work in Oracle.
The field is type is DATE in the Oracle table.
Here is the syntax from my Report command for the 3 parameters:
AND ( ( CLIL. ITEM_TAG IN ('{?tag}') OR CLS.DESCRIPTION IN( '{?desc}')
OR trunc (CLIL.ISSUE_DATE) BETWEEN to_date ('{?StartDate}', 'mm/dd/yyyy') and to_date ('{?EndDate}', 'mm/dd/yyyy' )))
Crystal reports doesn't accept the Oracle syntax.. you need to use the functions provided by the CR to do manuplations of dates... and then use that in CR.
Create a Start Date and End Date as date parameters in CR and then use those.
(CLIL.ISSUE_DATE) >= {?StartDate} and (CLIL.ISSUE_DATE) < {?EndDate}
Here start date and end date are Date datatype parameters.
if (CLIL.ISSUE_DATE) is a datetime parameter then use the function Cdate provided by the crystal.

Difference between RRRR and YYYY in Oracle?

I have a stored procedure written in Oracle. I'm using a where condition in which i'm comparing two dates. I have a strange problem where the procedure works from oracle perfectly and when run from asp.net it just returns 0. Please look below for the procedure
PROCEDURE SAMPLEPROC
(
P_DATE IN VARCHAR2,
P_COUNT OUT NUMBER
)
AS
BEGIN
SELECT count(*) INTO P_COUNT from dual where
to_date(sysdate,'dd-mm-yyyy')=to_date(P_DATE,'dd-mm-yyyy');
END;
Now, when i run the above code with below input.
INPUT : 11-02-2014
OUTPUT FROM ORACLE : COUNT=1
OUTPUT FROM ASP.NET : COUNT=0
Then, After wasting long time, My friend just changed the format of the date to dd-mm-rrrr as shown below
SELECT count(*) INTO P_COUNT from dual where
to_date(sysdate,'dd-mm-rrrr')=to_date(P_DATE,'dd-mm-rrrr')
After making the changes when we run with the same Input as above
INPUT : 11-02-2014
OUTPUT FROM ORACLE : COUNT=1
OUTPUT FROM ASP.NET : COUNT=1
Why is it like this? Why is it behaving in this way when run from ASP.NET
Please someone give me a explanation for this?
Added: From ASP.NET my date will be always coming as 11-02-2014 ie DD-MM-YYYY format and its not a Date datatype. Its just a string. The same procedure works perfectly when running from ORACLE and when sent data from Asp.net it gives me 0. I debugged it I saw that the data coming from asp.net is perfectly the same which I pass from oracle when testing.
So, I just need an explanation why it could be like this when YYYY was replaced with RRRR
when,
SELECT TO_DATE(SYSDATE,'DD-MM-YYYY') FROM DUAL;
AND
SELECT TO_DATE(SYSDATE,'DD-MM-RRRR') FROM DUAL;
returns the same data '11-02-2014'
SELECT count(*) INTO P_COUNT from dual where
trunc( sysdate) =to_date(P_DATE,'dd-mm-yyyy')
It has to be like this.
sysdate already returns a date.
I believe ur nls_date_format is different in your sqlplus and asp connection.
So, to_date(sydate) is attempt to work on some string.. which I guess is mm-dd-yyyy or dd-mm-rr(most probably) and so there could be mismatch.
SELECT value
FROM nls_session_parameters
WHERE parameter = 'NLS_DATE_FORMAT'
please run the above query in both places to catch the mismatch!

Issue with date when migrating databases between SQL Server 2008 and 2012 [duplicate]

I have the following piece of inline SQL that I run from a C# windows service:
UPDATE table_name SET
status_cd = '2',
sdate = CAST('03/28/2011 18:03:40' AS DATETIME),
bat_id = '33acff9b-e2b4-410e-baaf-417656e3c255',
cnt = 1,
attempt_date = CAST('03/28/2011 18:03:40' AS DATETIME)
WHERE id = '1855'
When I run this against a SQL Server database from within the application, I get the following error:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The conversion of a varchar data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value.
The statement has been terminated.
But if I take the piece of SQL and run it from SQL Management Studio, it will run without issue.
Any ideas what may be causing this issue?
Ambiguous date formats are interpreted according to the language of the login. This works
set dateformat mdy
select CAST('03/28/2011 18:03:40' AS DATETIME)
This doesn't
set dateformat dmy
select CAST('03/28/2011 18:03:40' AS DATETIME)
If you use parameterised queries with the correct datatype you avoid these issues. You can also use the unambiguous "unseparated" format yyyyMMdd hh:mm:ss
But if i take the piece of sql and run it from sql management studio, it will run without issue.
If you are at liberty to, change the service account to your own login, which would inherit your language/regional perferences.
The real crux of the issue is:
I use the following to convert -> date.Value.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss")
Please start using parameterized queries so that you won't encounter these issues in the future. It is also more robust, predictable and best practice.
I think the best way to work with dates between C# and SQL is, of course, use parametrized queries, and always work with DateTime objects on C# and the ToString() formating options it provides.
You better execute set datetime <format> (here you have the set dateformat explanation on MSDN) before working with dates on SQL Server so you don't get in trouble, like for example set datetime ymd. You only need to do it once per connection because it mantains the format while open, so a good practice would be to do it just after openning the connection to the database.
Then, you can always work with 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss:ffff' formats.
To pass the DateTime object to your parametrized query you can use DateTime.ToString('yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss:ffff').
For parsing weird formatted dates on C# you can use DateTime.ParseExact() method, where you have the option to specify exactly what the input format is: DateTime.ParseExact(<some date string>, 'dd/MM-yyyy',CultureInfo.InvariantCulture). Here you have the DateTime.ParseExact() explanation on MSDN)
It's a date format issue. In Ireland the standard date format for the 28th of March would be "28-03-2011", whereas "03/28/2011" is the standard for the USA (among many others).
I know that this solution is a little different from the OP's case, but as you may have been redirected here from searching on google the title of this question, as I did, maybe you're facing the same problem I had.
Sometimes you get this error because your date time is not valid, i.e. your date (in string format) points to a day which exceeds the number of days of that month!
e.g.: CONVERT(Datetime, '2015-06-31') caused me this error, while I was converting a statement from MySql (which didn't argue! and makes the error really harder to catch) to SQL Server.
You could use next function to initialize your DateTime variable:
DATETIMEFROMPARTS ( year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, milliseconds )
JAVA8: Use LocalDateTime.now().toString()
i faced this issue where i was using SQL it is different from MYSQL
the solution was puting in this format:
=date('m-d-y h:m:s');
rather than
=date('y-m-d h:m:s');

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