get timestamp from Oracle via Linked server

• knight-794779

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  January 23, 2009 at 5:12 pm

  #125945

  I'm looking for a way to get the server time stamp of an Oracle DB from Sql Server. We have it as a linked server, so i'd imagine I'd use OPENQUERY. Anyone know the syntax?

• Lowell

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  January 23, 2009 at 5:39 pm

  #932104

  oracle has SYSDATE ahs an equivalent of our GetDate();

  oracle would be SELECT SYSDATE FROM DUAL;

  (oracle syntax requires a FROM clause...DUAL is a dummy table that can be used to supply the source.

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  January 23, 2009 at 6:26 pm

  #932117

  thanks. that worked

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  January 23, 2009 at 6:32 pm

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  January 23, 2009 at 6:42 pm

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  got another question... same type actually.

  what if it's a linked server that i want the current_timestamp for?

  select current_timestamp from linkedserver.????.dbo.????

  normally we do just "select current_timestamp" which is a function on the local server. but, assuming i have permissions, how would i grab it from another linked server?

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  January 23, 2009 at 7:49 pm

  #932134

  since current_timestamp is a variable, it really doesn't matter which table you get it from;

  by same question, you mean from a linked sql server?

  i did select top 1 current_timestamp from linkedSQLserver.master.dbo.sysobjects, and it worked no problem;

  for fun i did a dif database with the same results:

  select current_timestamp from stormsql.geo.dbo.sysobjects

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