Question

I am having a column in my DB with varchar type having values in following format Day Mon dd hh:mm:ss EDT YYYY. I need to convert it to date time.

On running query select CONVERT(datetime, colname, 100) system returns Error code 241.

Help Please

Answer 1

You can use CAST or CONVERT for this:

declare @date varchar(50)
set @date = 'Sat May 05 12:38:00 EDT 2012'

select cast(substring(@date, 5, 6) + ' ' + right(@date, 4) + ' ' + substring(@date, 12, 8) as datetime)

OR

select cast(substring(@date, 5, 7) + right(@date, 4) + substring(@date, 11, 9) as datetime)

OR

select convert(datetime, substring(@date, 5, 7) + right(@date, 4)  + substring(@date, 11, 9))

result:

2012-05-05 12:38:00.000