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EXTRACT() gets the hour, minute, and second from a TIMESTAMP returned by TO_TIMESTAMP()
SQL>
SQL> SELECT
2 EXTRACT(HOUR FROM TO_TIMESTAMP('01-JAN-2005 19:15:26',
3 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')) AS HOUR
4 FROM dual;
HOUR
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19
SQL>
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