converting a date '17 | 9-2008' into '9-17-2008'

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converting a date '17 | 9-2008' into '9-17-2008'

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sqlchiq
Posting Yak Master

133 Posts

Posted - 2008-08-18 : 18:45:30

I have a column with dates in the above formate (i know, weird),

17 | 9-2008
10 | 9-2008
27 | 8-2008
20 | 8-2008
16 | 8-2008
13 | 9-2008
13 | 8-2008
23 | 8-2008

is there anyway to turn those into your standard 8/23/2008 or default smalldatetime format?

tkizer
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38200 Posts

Posted - 2008-08-18 : 19:07:47

What does the data look like for October-December? Is there a space after "|"?

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Lamprey
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

4614 Posts

Posted - 2008-08-18 : 19:19:56

You might try something like: STUFF(RIGHT(MyCol, 7), 4, 0,LEFT(MyCol, 2)+ '-')

khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2008-08-18 : 20:01:48

convert it to datetime or smalldatetime


select convert(datetime, replace(datecol, ' | ', '-'), 103)

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