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infodemers
Posting Yak Master

Canada
166 Posts
Posted - 09/30/2012 :  00:14:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi,

I use the following to convert a date.
English:
Select CONVERT(DATE, '1-' + 'jan-2012') --> returns 2012-01-01

French:
Select CONVERT(DATE, '1-' + 'janv.-2012')
returns Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.

Any idea?

khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

Singapore
16746 Posts
Posted - 09/30/2012 :  02:11:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
what is your language ?

select	@@language


for French, try set the language to French before convert.
SET LANGUAGE N'French'


refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174398.aspx

KH
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infodemers
Posting Yak Master

Canada
166 Posts
Posted - 09/30/2012 :  09:16:50  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You are right khtan!

I also found out, I have the remove the dot in the month name to get it work with the language setting!
SET LANGUAGE N'French'
Select CONVERT(DATE, '1-' + 'janv-2012')
SET LANGUAGE N'English'
Select CONVERT(DATE, '1-' + 'jan-2012')

Thanks a lot for your help!
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

India
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Posted - 10/01/2012 :  10:50:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
this is the problem of trying to store dates as text format. Always try to store date values as date itself if possible and pass values in an unambiguos format

http://visakhm.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-iso-format-is-recommended-while.html



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madhivanan
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India
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Posted - 10/05/2012 :  04:58:44  Show Profile  Send madhivanan a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Always use unambiguous date format http://beyondrelational.com/modules/2/blogs/70/posts/10898/understanding-datetime-column-part-ii.aspx

Madhivanan

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