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I have created table orders with date as an attribute which will accept date here is my query for creating table

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 create table orders(oid number(2), dates date, customer_id number(2), amount number(4));


now i have tried to insert data as

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insert into orders values(102, 2009-10-08, 3, 3000)

and it is giving me error as

ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected DATE got NUMBER