Oracle Add 1 hour in SQL

Use an interval:

select some_date_column + interval '1' hour 
from your_table;

You can use INTERVAL type or just add calculated number value - "1" is equal "1 day".

first way:

select date_column + INTERVAL '0 01:00:00' DAY TO SECOND from dual;

second way:

select date_column + 1/24 from dual;

First way is more convenient when you need to add a complicated value - for example, "1 day 3 hours 25 minutes 49 seconds". See also: http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/oracle-dates-timestamps-and-intervals.php

Also you have to remember that oracle have two interval types - DAY TO SECOND and YEAR TO MONTH. As for me, one interval type would be better, but I hope people in oracle knows, what they do ;)


Old way:

SELECT DATE_COLUMN + 1 is adding a day
SELECT DATE_COLUMN + N /24 to add hour(s) - N being number of hours
SELECT DATE_COLUMN + N /1440 to add minute(s) - N being number of minutes
SELECT DATE_COLUMN + N /86400 to add second(s) - N being number of seconds

Using INTERVAL:

SELECT DATE_COLUMN + INTERVAL 'N' HOUR or MINUTE or SECOND - N being a number of hours or minutes or seconds.

select sysdate + 1/24 from dual;

sysdate is a function without arguments which returns DATE type
+ 1/24 adds 1 hour to a date

select to_char(to_date('2014-10-15 03:30:00 pm', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS pm') + 1/24, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS pm') from dual;

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