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Hey does anyone know how to select a random time of the day in oracle?

im using

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  2. SELECT TO_DATE(TRUNC(DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE(2454467,2454467+364)),'J')
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FROM DUAL;

to select a random date from 2008, but need to randomly select a time from the day too.
Feb 16 '08 #1
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debasisdas
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try to use this

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  1. select mod(to_char(sysdate,'hh') + TRUNC(DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE(1,100)),12)||':'||mod(to_char(sysdate,'mi') + TRUNC(DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE(1,100)),60)||':'||mod(to_char(sysdate,'ss') + TRUNC(DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE(1,100)),60) from dual
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Feb 18 '08 #2

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