[SOLVED] Help on data generator

Smemo

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Dear
I need to generate values in a DATE field with following range:
From 01-03-2012 00:00:00 To 15-03-2012 23:59:59

Any idea?
Thanks in advance,
Massimo
 
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I created a function to generate a random date, like this:

SQL:
create or replace function F_GENERATE_RND_DATE(
           starting_date in Varchar2 Default to_char(Sysdate-30,'ddmmyyyy'),
           ending_date   in Varchar2 Default to_char(Sysdate,'ddmmyyyy')) return varchar2 Is
  Result varchar2(17);
Begin
  select to_char(to_date(
            trunc(dbms_random.value(to_number(to_char(to_date(starting_date,'ddmmyyyy'),'J')),
                                    to_number(to_char(to_date(ending_date,'ddmmyyyy'),'J')))),'J'
              )+ dbms_random.value(0,86400)/86400,'ddmmyyyy HH24:mi:ss') as rand_date Into Result from dual;
  return(Result);
End F_GENERATE_RND_DATE;

Then in data generator I used

Code:
SQL(to_date(F_GENERATE_RND_DATE,'ddmmyyyy HH24:mi:ss'))
 
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