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Home > Forums > Programmers > DBMS Packages > NCR: Teradata Forum

Convert CHARACTER to Date

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vladab (Programmer)

29 Nov 05 10:39

I am trying to convert a field of CHARACTER(8) data type into Date format 'yyyy-mm-dd'. The following query produce 2665 (Invalid date) error :

select cast('20041101' as date format 'yyyy-mm-dd')
from table_name

Please advice how to fix this error.

Vlada

al1x24 (Programmer)

30 Nov 05 4:40

I think that select cast('20041101' as date format 'yyyymmdd') would give a better result.

vladab (Programmer)

30 Nov 05 17:06

Yes. I already changed it to the way you are suggesting and it worked.

Thank you.

ripperfuel (IS/IT--Management)

31 Dec 05 0:02

How about this:

select cast(cast('20041101' as date format 'yyyymmdd') as date format 'yyyy-mm-dd');

*** Query completed. One row found. One column returned.
*** Total elapsed time was 1 second.

'20041101'
----------
2004-11-01

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