How to truncate time in date field?

In Oracle: SQL> ALTER SESSION SET nls_date_format = ‘YYYY-MON-DD HH24:MI:SS’; Session altered. SQL> SELECT TRUNC(sysdate) FROM DUAL; TRUNC(SYSDATE) ——————– 2009-MAY-10 00:00:00 In SQL Server: SELECT CAST(CONVERT(varchar, GetDate(), 101) AS DateTime) 2009-05-10 00:00:00.000 Advertisements

How to calculate end of day?

There are few ways to calculate end of day i.e when the time is 23:59:59. In the example below it will return a value a value of 01-APR-2009 23:59:59. to_date(’01-APR-2009′) + 1 – 1/86400 to_date(’01-APR-2009′) + 0.99999 to_date(’01-APR-2009 23:59:59′, ‘DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS’) trunc(sysdate) + 0.99999 – end of today