How to format the data in column in sql server
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Hi,
Please help me,
In my table have a one date column. It contains data in different formats .I want to set all these different formats into a single format.
Like...
Date
10.12.2012 ---in this '10' is Day and 12 is Month and then Year.
12-10-2012
10.12.2012
2012/10/12
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SriSudha (6/12/2013)
Hi,Please help me,
In my table have a one date column. It contains data in different formats .I want to set all these different formats into a single format.
Like...
Date
10.12.2012 ---in this '10' is Day and 12 is Month and then Year.
12-10-2012
10.12.2012
2012/10/12
How do you know that first date is in the dmy format instead of the mdy format? There has to be something else in the table for SQL Server to figure that out. Without some hint, even a human couldn't figure out that the first date was dmy and the 3rd day was mdy.
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) -
Hi,
Yes you are right,without hint we can't do nothing.
The data comes into 3 formats only.Based on that we will decide the Day and Month and Year.
That 3 formats are
10.12.2012 ----- if it is in this format the 1st part is "Day" and 2nd part is "Month" and then Year.
12-10-2012 --- if it is in this format the 1st part is "Month" and 2nd part is "Day" and then year.
2012/10/12 --if it is in this format the 1st part is "Year" and 2nd part is "Day" and 3rd part is Month.
Thanks for your quick reply.
Please help me.Its not my own thought, I got a data like this only.
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One way to achieve the results
DECLARE @YourTableName TABLE(
ColumnName VARCHAR(20)
)
INSERT@YourTableName
SELECT'10.12.2012' UNION ALL
SELECT'12-10-2012' UNION ALL
SELECT'2012/10/12'
SELECTCASE
WHEN ColumnName LIKE '%.%' THEN CONVERT(DATETIME,ColumnName,104)
WHEN ColumnName LIKE '%-%' THEN CONVERT(DATETIME,ColumnName,110)
WHEN ColumnName LIKE '%/%' THEN CONVERT(DATETIME,LEFT(ColumnName,5)+RIGHT(ColumnName,2)+SUBSTRING(ColumnName,5,3),111)
END AS NewColumn, ColumnName
FROM@YourTableName
Kingston DhasianHow to post data/code on a forum to get the best help - Jeff Moden
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/ -
Kinston beat me to it but, to add a little more checking, here's what I came up with.
--=============================================================================-- Create and populate a test table. This is NOT a part of the solution.
--=============================================================================
--===== Conditionally drop the test table to make reruns in SSMS easier.
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#TestTable','U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #TestTable
;
--===== Create and populate the test table on the fly
SELECT DateString
INTO #TestTable
FROM (
SELECT '10.12.2012' UNION ALL --dmy
SELECT '12-10-2012' UNION ALL --mdy
SELECT '2012/10/12' --ydm
)d(DateString)
;
--=============================================================================
-- Demonstrate one possible solution
--=============================================================================
--===== Change all the 3 types of date formats to real dates.
SELECT OriginalDateString = DateString,
ReformattedDate =
CASE
WHEN DateString LIKE '[0-3][0-9].[0-1][0-9].[1-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]' --dd.mm.yyyy
THEN CONVERT(DATETIME,DateString,104)
WHEN DateString LIKE '[0-1][0-9]-[0-3][0-9]-[1-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]' --mm-dd-yyyy
THEN CONVERT(DATETIME,DateString,110)
WHEN DateString LIKE '[1-2][0-9][0-9][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/[0-1][0-9]' --yyyy/dd/mm
THEN CONVERT(DATETIME,RIGHT(DateString,5)+'/'+LEFT(DateString,4),103)
ELSE NULL
END
FROM #TestTable
;
If that last date format were actually yyyy/mm/dd instead of yyyy/dd/mm, we could make this a whole lot simpler as well as being able to add extra checking.
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) -
SriSudha (6/12/2013)
Hi,Please help me,
In my table have a one date column. It contains data in different formats .I want to set all these different formats into a single format.
Like...
Date
10.12.2012 ---in this '10' is Day and 12 is Month and then Year.
12-10-2012
10.12.2012
2012/10/12
I'm just replying because you used my birthday for your test data 😀
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Hi,
Thank you very much.It works fine.
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To be honest, dates shouldn't be stored in formats. They should be stored as a datetime data type and formatted when selected or in the application.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverabilityWe walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass -
+1000 to that. That's why the script I wrote converted everything to DATETIME.
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
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