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giri_sayee
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Posted - 2006-10-06 : 12:55:43

I need to validate that a varchar column is in yyyy/mm/dd format.
Is there a earier way to do this other than doing substring and finding length of each datepart?

X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2006-10-06 : 13:08:05

[code]
DECLARE @d varchar(10)
SET @d = '2006/10/06'
IF (SELECT ISDATE(@d))=1
PRINT 'Valid Date'
ELSE
PRINT 'Inalid Date'

[/code]

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