Date handling when profiling columns in Oracle

In Oracle, dates are stored as numbers. Talend uses the Cast function with Pattern Frequency Statistics. When you run the analysis with the SQL engine, the query casts the Date type to a text type and the original date format is changed from 9999-99-99 99:99:99 to 99-AAA-99.

As all dates are date objects in the Date column, dates will always be displayed using one single format in Oracle (99-AAA-99) and using another single format such as 9999-99-99 99:99:99.9 in non-Oracle and non-SQL cases. This is why no data quality issue can be found using this indicator. It is then not advisable to use Pattern Frequency Statistics on a Date type column in databases.