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TIMESTAMP is an application domain that has the following characteristics:

• data type in the data base is TIMESTAMP (see below)
• screen representation is as a text field (usually display only - as the value would be system generated)

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TIMESTAMP is an Oracle data type that indicates this field holds a date/time value.

TIMESTAMP is similar to DATE but allows for accuracy down to three decimal places beyond seconds (the most granular that DATE goes).