Oracle - format a date, Date Add Here is a query to format a date select distinct job_date, to_char(job_date, 'Dy DD-Mon-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') AS "job_date_text" from duhTable order by job_date desc "JOB_DATE" "job_date_text" "05-JAN-07" "Fri 05-Jan-2007 19:00:44" "05-JAN-07" "Fri 05-Jan-2007 08:00:37" "03-JAN-07" "Wed 03-Jan-2007 10:46:35" "29-DEC-06" "Fri 29-Dec-2006 08:00:38" Here is a query to get data “older than 5 days”: select * from duhTable latest Left Outer Join (Select loanxid, job_date, closebid...