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Cx_Oracle 'ORA-01843: Invalid month' with unicode parameter

I have the following: (using ipython)

In [30]: con = cx_Oracle.connect('refill_test02/******@MYDB')

In [31]: cur = con.cursor()

In [32]: cur.execute("ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS' NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF'")

In [33]: cur.execute("select to_date(:0), to_timestamp(:1) from dual", ['2013-03-12', '2013-03-12 08:22:31.332144'])
Out[33]: <__builtin__.OracleCursor on <cx_Oracle.Connection to refill_test02@MYDB>>

In [34]: cur.fetchall()
Out[34]: 
[(datetime.datetime(2013, 3, 12, 0, 0),
  datetime.datetime(2013, 3, 12, 8, 22, 31, 332144))]

In [35]: cur.execute("select to_date(:0), to_timestamp(:1) from dual", [u'2013-03-12', '2013-03-12 08:22:31.332144'])
Out[35]: <__builtin__.OracleCursor on <cx_Oracle.Connection to refill_test02@MYDB>>

In [36]: cur.fetchall()
Out[36]: 
[(datetime.datetime(2013, 3, 12, 0, 0),
  datetime.datetime(2013, 3, 12, 8, 22, 31, 332144))]

In [37]: cur.execute("select to_date(:0), to_timestamp(:1) from dual", [u'2013-03-12', u'2013-03-12 08:22:31.332144'])
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DatabaseError                             Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/xxxxx/<ipython-input-37-8af80e5fc40c> in <module>()
----> 1 cur.execute("select to_date(:0), to_timestamp(:1) from dual", [u'2013-03-12', u'2013-03-12 08:22:31.332144'])

DatabaseError: ORA-01843: not a valid month


In [38]: cur.execute("select to_date(:0), to_timestamp(:1) from dual", [u'2013-03-12', '2013-03-12 08:22:31.332144'])
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DatabaseError                             Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/xxxx/<ipython-input-38-bc628f006aa3> in <module>()
----> 1 cur.execute("select to_date(:0), to_timestamp(:1) from dual", [u'2013-03-12', '2013-03-12 08:22:31.332144'])

DatabaseError: ORA-01843: not a valid month


In [39]: cur.execute("ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS' NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF'")

In [40]: cur.execute("select to_date(:0), to_timestamp(:1) from dual", [u'2013-03-12', '2013-03-12 08:22:31.332144'])
Out[40]: <__builtin__.OracleCursor on <cx_Oracle.Connection to refill_test02@MYDB>>

In [41]: cur.fetchall()
Out[41]: 
[(datetime.datetime(2013, 3, 12, 0, 0),
  datetime.datetime(2013, 3, 12, 8, 22, 31, 332144))]

For some reason, I can’t use the unicode string for the timestamp (IN [37]) parameter, which is even weirder, since after that I need to reset the NLS session formats before it will work with the normal string again.

I use: Cx_Oracle 5.1.2 python 2.7.3 Oracle 10.2.0.1.0

Any ideas?

Thank you for reading this.

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This is actually a bug in Oracle 10.5.0.2 and 11.2.0.1.

The error can be reproduced as follows:

set in the NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT session.

Run any implicit or explicit TO_DATE conversion with data in Unicode.

TO_TIMESTAMP reset timestamp.

TO_TIMESTAMP , TO_CHAR .

:

ALTER SESSION SET NLS_TERRITORY = 'AMERICA';
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS' NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF';

REM --- WORKS:
SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP('2013-06-24 18:15:10.312') FROM DUAL;

REM --- WORKS:
SELECT TO_DATE('2013-06-24 18:15:10') FROM DUAL;

REM --- WORKS:
SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP('2013-06-24 18:15:10.312') FROM DUAL;

REM --- WORKS:
SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP(x) FROM (SELECT CAST('2013-06-24 18:15:10.312' AS NVARCHAR2(30)) AS X FROM DUAL);

REM --- WORKS:
SELECT TO_DATE(x) FROM (SELECT CAST('2013-06-24 18:15:10' AS NVARCHAR2(30)) AS X FROM DUAL);

REM --- WORKS:
SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP('2013-06-24 18:15:10.312') FROM DUAL;

REM !!! FAILS!
SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP(x) FROM (SELECT CAST('2013-06-24 18:15:10.312' AS NVARCHAR2(30)) AS X FROM DUAL);

REM !!! FAILS!
SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP('2013-06-24 18:15:10.312') FROM DUAL;

REM --- WORKS:
SELECT TO_DATE('2013-06-24 18:15:10') FROM DUAL;
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, RHEL 5, Cx_Oracle 5.1 python 2.4.3 Oracle 11.2.0.3.0 to_date to_timestamp?

https://gist.github.com/fclrc/5435561

#! /bin/python
import cx_Oracle
import platform

print ("Python version: " + platform.python_version())
print ("cx_Oracle version: " + cx_Oracle.version)
print ("Oracle client: " + str(cx_Oracle.clientversion()).replace(', ','.'))

connection = cx_Oracle.connect('user/pass@tns')
cursor = connection.cursor()
#
# Option with format strings
#
cursor.execute("""select to_date(:arg1,'yyyy-mm-dd'), to_timestamp(:arg2,'yyyy-mm-dd hh24.mi.ss.ff') from dual""", arg1=u'2013-03-12', arg2=u'2013-03-12 08:22:31.332144')
#
# Option without format strings
#
#cursor.execute("ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS' NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF'")
#cursor.execute("select to_date(:0), to_timestamp(:1) from dual", [u'2013-03-12', u'2013-03-12 08:22:31.332144'])

mydate = cursor.fetchall()
print mydate
cursor.close()
connection.close()
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Based on the jtiai problem description , I made the following workaround - before invoking any problem sqls (for example, oracle 10.5.0.2 and 11.2.0.1, cx_oracle 5.1.2), reset NLS_DATE_FORMAT / NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT again:

cursor.execute(
     "ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS'"
     " NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF'")

# do execute ...
cursor.execute(query, params)
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