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Re: m/d/yyyy string to yyyymmdd decimal in SQL

Thanks Birgitta! This is good to know once we upgrade to v7r3.

Per your other post, thankfully, all of our dates here use 4-digit years.

- Dan

On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 4:44 AM, Birgitta Hauser <Hauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

SQL can handle character dates in the ISO, USA or EUR format very well, but
not very well with numeric dates.
But there was an enhancement in Release 7.2 in the scalar functions such as
DEC, INTEGER, so a Date, Time or Timestamp can be directly converted into a
numeric date, time, timestamp in the format YYYYMMDD, HHMMSS,
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS)
In this way you only need to convert your character date into a real date
and convert the result into a numeric value:

The following SQL code works on my 7.3 machine:

Dec(Date(CharDate), 8, 0)

Using VarChar_Format might be a little more complicated:
Dec(VarChar_Format(CharDate, 'YYYYMMDD'), 8, 0)


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