Using Oracle to_date function for date string with milliseconds

TO_DATE supports conversion to DATE datatype, which doesn't support milliseconds. If you want millisecond support in Oracle, you should look at TIMESTAMP datatype and TO_TIMESTAMP function.

Hope that helps.

For three digits millisecond:

TO_CHAR(LN_AUTOD_UWRG_DTTM,'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS.FF3')

For six digits millisecond:

TO_CHAR(LN_AUTOD_UWRG_DTTM,'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS.FF'),

An Oracle DATE does not store times with more precision than a second. You cannot store millisecond precision data in a DATE column.

Your two options are to either truncate the string of the milliseconds before converting it into a DATE, i.e.

to_date( substr('23.12.2011 13:01:001', 1, 19), 'DD.MM.YYYY HH24:MI:SS' )

or to convert the string into a TIMESTAMP that does support millisecond precision

to_timestamp( '23.12.2011 13:01:001', 'DD.MM.YYYY HH24:MI:SSFF3' )