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 SQL server DTS task Date manipulation

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sqlsaravanan
Starting Member

3 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-07 : 04:08:31
My control panel date setting is US format mm/dd/yyyy. But, the text file date format is dd/mm/yyyy. How do I upload the date correctly to Sql table from text file?

At currently due to this conflict the dates are not correctly uploaded into SQL table

rgds,

Saravanan

rmiao
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

7266 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-07 : 23:20:01
Try set date format before loading data:

set dateformat dmy
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sqlsaravanan
Starting Member

3 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-09 : 03:59:18
User wants to maintain dmy format in control panel due to other existing application requirement.
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-09 : 05:34:09
set dateformat only changes sql's format of date. so other existing applications would still use system date format.
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rohitkumar
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

472 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-10 : 10:22:52
are you using DTS? in activex you can use substrings and concatenation to format the date
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