OBIEE date settings

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Working with dates in OBIEE

at Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Posted by Frans van Bree

Here are several options to set date formats in OBIEE. Option #1 is the best way to work with dates and comparison of dates to strings containing dates in a particular format.

See also: http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/cast_as_date

The most important settings (with example values) are:

• DATE_DISPLAY_FORMAT parameter in nqsconfig.ini: YYYY/MM/DD
• DATESHORTFORMAT parameter in localedefinitions.xml (based on the locale set in nqsconfig.ini): M/D/YYYY
• NLS_DATE_FORMAT parameter of the session (or database default): DD-MON-RR

Do not confuse these with parameters in dbfeatures.ini. There this format is the default for almost all database platforms in parameter DATE_FORMAT parameter.