Displaying time with milliseconds in 8i

I am using the Oracle8i database. In one of my applications, I need to display time including milliseconds. The current format is "Hour:Minutes;Seconds". Required Format is "Hours:Minutes:Seconds:Milliseconds". Can you help in this issue?

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Until you get to 9i, you cannot directly use milliseconds because Oracle only stores times in HH:MI:SS format. In 9i, this capability is now available. But since you're on 8i, try using this Java procedure (you must have Java capability installed for your 8i database before this will work).

CREATE OR REPLACE JAVA SOURCE
NAMED "MyTimestamp"
AS
import java.lang.string;
import java.sql.timestamp;

public class MyTimestamp
{  public static String getTimestamp()
   {
	return (new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis())).toString();
   }
};
/

create or replace function my_timestamp return varchar2
as language java
name 'MyTimestamp.getTimestamp() return java.lang.String';
/

To use:
select my_timestamp from dual ;

MY_TIMESTAMP
-----------------------
2002-04-18 16:54:38.688
This example is courtesy of Tom Kyte's book Expert One-on-One Oracle. I'd recommed the book for more info and other cool stuff.

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This was first published in April 2002

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