>>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:34 PM, in message
<1A6E6D554222284AB25ABE3229A92762715526(at)nrtexcus702(dot)int(dot)asurion(dot)com>, "Roberts,
Jon" <Jon(dot)Roberts(at)asurion(dot)com> wrote:
> If not to_char, what is the preferred method to convert a timestamp to a
> string?
Your original post showed to_char apparently doing what you wanted, no?
> select to_char(date, 'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss.ms') as char,
> date
> from (select timestamp'2008-01-30 15:06:21.560' as date) sub
>
>
> "2008-01-30 15:06:21.560";"2008-01-30 15:06:21.56"
The to_char function returned the timestamp as a character string with
three decimal positions.
-Kevin