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UK date in text field as a true date

  • July 14, 2014 at 11:41 am

    #287902

    I have a date held in a varchar field in a temporary sql table and I want to convert it into a sql date and it doesn't work. I can replicate this as below -

    So I run

    select

    cast ('14/02/2014' as date)

    and I get a conversion failed error. what am I doing wrong ?

  • July 14, 2014 at 11:45 am

    #1729221

    you'll wnat to set your session variable for dateformat to handle this for you:

    SET DATEFORMAT DMY

    select

    cast ('14/02/2014' as date)

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  • July 15, 2014 at 3:41 pm

    #1729663

    or use convert() with style 103

    select convert(date, '14/02/2014', 103)

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