how to convert date into month number?

sql oracle sqldatetime
Taoqir picture Taoqir · Dec 26, 2012 · Viewed 65.4k times · Source

I have a column Month in my table. The month name and date are stored in this month column like 

Month    
01-JAN-12 
02-FEB-12

and so on.

How do I convert the DATE into month number such as 

Month
1 
2

etc.

Answer

Mari picture Mari · Dec 26, 2012 
select 
to_char(to_date('01-JAN-12','dd-mon-yy'),'mm') from dual;

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