Thursday, May 28, 2015

SSRS: How to format datetime as Oracle YYYYMMDDHH24

If a SSRS report has to be designed for an Oracle database and datetime needs to be displayed with date and hour, there are many different ways for handling it. Oracle supports many different formatting on datetime and sometime values in the report need to be displayed as per Oracle format such as YYYYMMDDHH24. That was one of the specific requirements I had, so thought to share the way I did it assuming that it will be useful for you too.

With Oracle, following code returns 2015052813 if the date is 2015-05-28 and time is 1:30pm.

SELECT to_char(sysdate, "YYYYMMDDHH24") FROM dual;

If the same format has to be displayed with SSRS, here is the way to write the expression.


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