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Amber_Deslaurier
Starting Member

40 Posts

Posted - 2010-07-01 : 20:27:45

Hi,

I have a field that has digits...

20100517
19990612
19851231

etc.. the current format is YEAR MONTH DATE

but I need it to be:

2010-05-17
1999-06-12
1985-12-31

how do i convert the output? Thanks,

Amber

tkizer
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38200 Posts

Posted - 2010-07-02 : 00:06:43

What's the data type? Int or varchar?

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khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2010-07-02 : 00:52:20

this will works for both in or varchar


select	convert(varchar(10), convert(datetime, convert(varchar(10), thefield)), 121)

If it is varchar, you can remove the extra most inner convert()

Or you can also use stuff() to insert the dash in between the number / strings

KH
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madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator

22864 Posts

Posted - 2010-07-02 : 02:54:17

You should always use proper DATETIME datatype and leave formation at front end application

Madhivanan

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Amber_Deslaurier
Starting Member

40 Posts

Posted - 2010-07-02 : 17:51:57

Thank you! Yes I did find out that you were right... I had to leave the conversion local... tried it on the server but had bytes errors or something..

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