diff --git a/model/src/main/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/model/type/BestFitColumnType.java b/model/src/main/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/model/type/BestFitColumnType.java
index 1935e45..d53e7d4 100644
--- a/model/src/main/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/model/type/BestFitColumnType.java
+++ b/model/src/main/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/model/type/BestFitColumnType.java
@@ -35,5 +35,18 @@ public enum BestFitColumnType {
     STRING,
 
     /** {@link java.math.BigDecimal} — for {@code DECIMAL}/{@code NUMERIC}. */
-    DECIMAL
+    DECIMAL,
+
+    /**
+     * {@link java.sql.Date} — for {@code DATE}, read with {@code getDate}. {@code getObject} hands a date over as the
+     * driver likes (a {@code java.sql.Date}, a {@code LocalDate}).
+     */
+    DATE,
+
+    /**
+     * {@link java.sql.Timestamp} — for {@code TIMESTAMP}, read with {@code getTimestamp}. {@code getObject} hands some
+     * timestamps over in a driver's own class (Oracle: {@code oracle.sql.TIMESTAMP}), which no format and no comparison
+     * of the engine knows.
+     */
+    TIMESTAMP
 }
diff --git a/statement/impl/src/main/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/statement/exec/ColumnAccessors.java b/statement/impl/src/main/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/statement/exec/ColumnAccessors.java
index 1cd1fe5..3f60731 100644
--- a/statement/impl/src/main/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/statement/exec/ColumnAccessors.java
+++ b/statement/impl/src/main/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/statement/exec/ColumnAccessors.java
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ static Object read(ResultSet rs, int oneBasedCol, BestFitColumnType type) throws
                 yield rs.wasNull() ? null : v;
             }
             case DECIMAL -> rs.getBigDecimal(oneBasedCol);
+            case DATE -> rs.getDate(oneBasedCol);
+            case TIMESTAMP -> rs.getTimestamp(oneBasedCol);
             case OBJECT -> rs.getObject(oneBasedCol);
         };
     }
diff --git a/statement/impl/src/test/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/statement/exec/ColumnAccessorsTest.java b/statement/impl/src/test/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/statement/exec/ColumnAccessorsTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..efbb466
--- /dev/null
+++ b/statement/impl/src/test/java/org/eclipse/daanse/sql/statement/exec/ColumnAccessorsTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2026 Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made
+ * available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
+ * which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *   SmartCity Jena - initial
+ *   Stefan Bischof (bipolis.org) - initial
+ */
+package org.eclipse.daanse.sql.statement.exec;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
+
+import java.sql.Date;
+import java.sql.ResultSet;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import java.sql.Timestamp;
+
+import org.eclipse.daanse.sql.model.type.BestFitColumnType;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+/** A temporal column is read with its getter, whatever class the driver's getObject would hand over. */
+class ColumnAccessorsTest {
+
+    @Test
+    void aTimestampIsReadAsATimestamp() throws SQLException {
+        ResultSet rs = mock(ResultSet.class);
+        Timestamp timestamp = Timestamp.valueOf("2005-05-29 00:00:00");
+        when(rs.getObject(1)).thenReturn(new Object() {
+            @Override
+            public String toString() {
+                return "a driver's own timestamp class";
+            }
+        });
+        when(rs.getTimestamp(1)).thenReturn(timestamp);
+        assertEquals(timestamp, ColumnAccessors.read(rs, 1, BestFitColumnType.TIMESTAMP));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aDateIsReadAsADate() throws SQLException {
+        ResultSet rs = mock(ResultSet.class);
+        Date date = Date.valueOf("2008-04-29");
+        when(rs.getObject(1)).thenReturn(date.toLocalDate());
+        when(rs.getDate(1)).thenReturn(date);
+        assertEquals(date, ColumnAccessors.read(rs, 1, BestFitColumnType.DATE));
+    }
+}