Question

I have 2 fields date_issued and time_issued as below

date_issued       time_issued
1031              225225 (22 hrs 52 mins 25 secs)    

I need to convert that varchar value to datetime as dd-mm-yy h:m:s

I tried following

select CONVERT(datetime, date_issued+time_issued ,120) as ttt from tbl

but is showing following error

Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string.

Any ideas??

Answer 1

Assuming year is 2012:

select CONVERT(datetime, '2012' + LEFT(date_issued, 2) + RIGHT(date_issued, 2) + ' ' + LEFT(time_issued, 2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(time_issued, 3, 2) + ':' + right(time_issued, 2))