Re: converting 7 digit date and numeric time into timestamp in sql

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1

And you don't even need the space in the middle of either the value or 
the format.

Cheers
Vern

On 2/15/2019 7:48 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> This works:
> timestamp_format(right(digits(19000000 + lgdate), 8) concat  ' ' concat digits(lgtime), 'YYYYMMDD HH24MISS') as message_timestamp,
>
> I had forgotten about timestamp_format.
> Then I kept stumbling over MI.  I kept trying to use MM.
>
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> Subject: converting 7 digit date and numeric time into timestamp in sql
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> I can beat this into submission but I am wondering if there is a more elegant way of converting two fields like CYYMMDDD and HHMMSS into a timestamp in SQL
>
> I am aware of the performance considerations of doing it this way versus comparing against just converting my input data to numerics instead, or using a conversion table.  I just want to do it this way.
>
> Rob Berendt
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