Re: Using SQL to convert date -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Using SQL to convert date
From: Bill <brobins3d@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:44:28 -0700
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Dean.Eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Using SQL, I'm trying to figure out how to convert a character field that contains '27/Aug/2009' into an 8 digit numeric date in the format 20090827. After the conversion, I want to load it into a field in the same record. I know I can substring out the year and the day. The tough part is converting the month. Is a CASE statement my only option? TIA

I know I'm coming in late, but one other option would be to build a two column, 12 row table:

JAN01
FEB02
MAR03
....
DEC12

And join to it.

Bill

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