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Posted - 2004-06-23 : 10:36:56
Chas writes "Hi Team,
I have a MSSQL table with a char(10) column of dates, formated as mm/dd/yyyy. I want to convert this string in an adjacent Datetime column to read the exact same way---mm/dd/yyyy. When I use Convert or cast, I get a buffer overflow error, out of range, or a cannot convert a character string datatype into Datetime message. Help. It may help you to know that I created the orginal mm/dd/yyyy char(10) column by concatenating mm and dd and yyy. Thanks in advance for any help you may offer.
Regards,
Chas"

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Posted - 2004-06-23 : 10:36:56
You can use the ISDATE function to return all the rows where it wont' convert to a date.
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