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Hi Gad
Look for the function iDate on the internet and load that into your system
It will cater for converting numerics or strings into dates - but will handle invalid values
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gad Miron
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 10:45 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: SQL Valid Date
Hello guys
need help with the following:
I'm converting a numeric YYYYMMDD date to a true date with select EVNTDATE, date(timestamp_format(CHAR(EVNTDATE) , 'YYYYMMDD')) from some_file It works fine most of the time but it fails when the numeric EVNTDATE contains invalid date like 19910229 (Feb. 29 1991) or 20001302 (Mama told me to avoid month 13th at all cost)
Is there a SQL function to validate date? (like SQL Server's ISDATE)
TIA
Gad
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