SQL Server datetime to Oracle

Question

If you have in SQL Server DATETIME, what will this be in Oracle?

DATE, where you loose the fractional parts of a second or better TIMESTAMP(3)?

Answer 1

If you want to preserve the fractional seconds, you'd use a TIMESTAMP(3) (or just a TIMESTAMP). If you don't care about the fractional seconds, you'd use a DATE.

Answer 2

From here: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14225/ch4datetime.htm

DATE contains the following

• Year
• Month
• Day
• Hour
• Minute
• Second

Whereas TIMESTAMP will also contain fractional seconds. With TIMESTAMP(n) you can specify n as a number between 0 and 9 for how many digits of precision, the default is 6.