Converting Text To Date
Feb 6, 2006I have a field that stores a date as text (121205). I need to convert this field to a date, but since it is text, I cannot figure out how to do it. Any ideas??? Thanks! :D
View 5 RepliesI have a field that stores a date as text (121205). I need to convert this field to a date, but since it is text, I cannot figure out how to do it. Any ideas??? Thanks! :D
View 5 RepliesWhen converting a text into a date format using the DateTime String transformation I get the following error.
'The number of failing rows exceeds the maximum specified.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid date format'
The dates is stored as a text like this: mmddyy and I want to convert it to a date field in the table. Any help would be great.
I have the following
Column Name : [Converted Date]
Data Type : varchar(50)
When I try and do month around the [Converted Date] I get the following error message
“Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.”
My Query is
SELECT
month([Created Date])
FROM [FDMS_PartnerReporting].[Staging].[Salesforce_MarketingReporting]
SELECT * ,[Due]
FROM [Events]
Where Due >= getdate() +90
This returns the error: Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string
Why would this be? How to cast or convert this so that it will work?
Hi,
I have julian date in the format of 2003182 and I need to convert into our regular calendar date.
Anybody have any SQL statement for this.
Thanks,
Ravi
Given a string it should convert it to a proper text.Example: if you passed a string 'Cat in the hat', I want 'Cat In TheHat'Curious about few things, Does sql have Instr OR Split(like VB)functionalityAnybody can help??
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Error: SQL0204 - CONVERT in *LIBL type *N not found.
I have also tried converting it using (year(QHSTDT)*10000+100*month(QHSTDT)+ day(QHSTDT))) but when I convert the dates using this formula, I can get an incorrect number of days when I try to subtract one from the other.What formula can I use to convert my YYYYMMDD field to a format that will allow me to compare number of days between two dates?
I have a table that's of type date/time (i.e. 01/01/1900 00:00:00).What I want is to do the following:Say you have these records:person | date-time-------+---------------------------jim | 06/02/2004 00:05:52jim | 06/02/2004 05:06:21jim | 06/02/2004 05:46:21jim | 06/15/2004 11:26:21jim | 06/15/2004 11:35:21dave | 06/04/2004 09:35:21dave | 06/04/2004 11:05:21dave | 06/06/2004 10:34:21dave | 06/08/2004 11:37:21I'd like the results to count how many days and returnperson | days-------+-------jim | 2dave | 3How would I do this?--[ Sugapablo ][ http://www.sugapablo.com <--music ][ http://www.sugapablo.net <--personal ][ Join Bytes! <--jabber IM ]
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One of the fields accepts the data within the text box and adds it into the appropriate numeric data field in the table. However on the other text box I get an error message 'Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric.'
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I am using DTS to import text to a table. This mostly works except for the 'DateTime' datatype where I always run into either 'Arithmetic overflow' or 'Unable to convert varchar to DateTime format.' I can convert same data without incident in Access.
Has anyone run into this problem?
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Hi all,
My organization have a web-based application and needs it to support multilingual so we will be adapting our app to use unicode. However, one of our problems is to convert existing data from text to ntext. I couldn't find anything that document this. What is the best way to do that? I would like to be able to migrate the data from an existing text column to another ntext column in the table.
If I can't do that, what are the options? If it's possible, I would like to be able to do this in sql script.
Thanks a mil, in advance.
Eddie
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email: vijay.prasad@in.ibm.com
Hello all,
New to the forums here. I'm not a beginner with SQL, but nor am I a SQL developer - network engineer who knows some scripting and the fundamentals of DB design/administration. There's the background.
I have a database of client information where a date is keyed in and stored as text. Because this is entered by end-users, the way it's entered varies - 1/1/2001, 01/01/2001, etc. Most use "1/1/2001" (note the date is not the same for each record)
I have 4,000 records to update and I need to try to convert the text string to the correct date - changing 1/1/2005 to the same date in proper date/time format. My database uses datetime as an integer calculating the number of days from 12/30/1800. Today's date would be 75508. Time is separated into different fields.
I can do the work to update the text to a single format to make the conversion easier, but I am having trouble locating the proper way to write a convert function to do this. I've searched online (which is how I came here) and have searched the forums without luck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
I have a table with over a million rows and one of the fields containsamounts of money in text format.What is the most efficient way of converting this field to a numberformat that I can sum on?Regards,Ciarn
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Table contains field defined as text. First 12 characters will be date format 'mm/dd/yyyy'. then the next 3 characters could be:
9A, 12P, 3P, 7A or LTL
I would like to convert '9A' to be 09:00AM, so that I can sort by that converted field.
'12P to be 12:00PM and so on....
I have tried various form of case with substring and convert commands, but cant' get the solution. I can not change text field to varchar in table.
Hi,
Basically the above is a very common requirement, please comment on my solution which I've arrived at by searching through the web; -
In summary I have used 3 SSIS components these are "Flat File Source", "Derived Column" and "SQL Server Destination".
1) File Connections Manager Editor
1.1) Within File Connections Manager Editor; -
Name the data type e.g. "INTERCHANGE_NET_APP_DATE_SRC"
and assign a type to the data type e.g. string[DT_STR]
1.2) Click on the Preview button to ensure the expected text is assigned to the expected data type.
2) Derived Column Transformation Editor
2.1) Assign Derived Column Name, e.g.
INTERCHANGE_NET_APP_DATE
2.2) Select <add as new column> within Derived Column.
2.3) Enter the conversion Expression, e.g. ; -
2.3.1)
(SUBSTRING(INTERCHANGE_NET_APP_DATE_SRC,8,2) + "/" + SUBSTRING(INTERCHANGE_NET_APP_DATE_SRC,5,2) + "/" + SUBSTRING(INTERCHANGE_NET_APP_DATE_SRC,1,4))
2.3.2)
Since the above conversion is such a common task I suggest that Service Pack 3 of SQL Server 2005 delivers the following functionality; -
STRINGTODATE ('YYYYMMDD',INTERCHANGE_NET_APP_DATE_SRC)
2.4) Select "database timestamp [DT_DBTIMESTAMP] " as Data Type.
2.5) Within the Mappings tab of the SQL Destination Editor have; -
Input Column as INTERCHANGE_NET_APP_DATE and
Destination Column as INTERCHANGE_NET_APP_DATE.
Please comment on the above, I will then pass on my suggestion to Microsoft.
Thanks in advance,
Kieran.
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I thought i fixed this problem, as it WORKED about two days ago, but now I'm getting errors.
I have a series of text files, some are delimited, some are fixed width. I previously was able to import these files thru a dts package by creating the table in a stored procedure. Exple:
CREATE TABLE [Pol_Dump073104]
(
[Product_Type] varchar (12) NULL,
[Benefit] float NULL,
[Base_Premium] varchar (12) NULL,
[Rider_Premium] float NULL,
[Contract_Value] float NULL,
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Please help! :mad:
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The select statement is as follows:
select cast(ltrim(rtrim(units)) as decimal) as units
and I get an error message:
Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5, Line 23
Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric.
and the 'units' column contains ' 324,32 '
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I have a date held in a varchar field in a temporary sql table and I want to convert it into a sql date and it doesn't work. I can replicate this as below -
So I run
select
cast ('14/02/2014' as date)
and I get a conversion failed error.
I have an old table (table1) and a new table (table2). I need to move some of the data from table1 to table2.
For my example, table1 contains 1 field that is a DateTime, we’ll call it table1_Date.
table2 also contains 1 field that is a SmallDateTime, we’ll call it table2_Date.
I want to do something like this:
Insert into table2
table2_Date
Select
table1_Date
From table1
Where …..
I am getting the following error:
The conversion from datetime data type to smalldatetime data type resulted in a smalldatetime overflow error.
How can I go about converting this on the insert?
hey guys,
i need help in converting int to date. i've googled all over and most of all recommend using CAST or CONVERT. however, when i tried it to my SQL command, it didn't work. was i using it wrong? please help me figure it out.
here is the command i used:
Code:
select convert(datetime, starttime, 120) as starttime from table
one of the example of starttime contained in the db is 1170349200.
i'm almost desperate.. help please.. thanks in advance..
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