Question

I have a varchar value in BD2 Table like below format

121226145503+0530

I want to convert this varchar value to time stamp format like below

2012/12/26 14:55:03

Answer 1

In DB2 9.7, you can also use the TO_DATE function:

date(to_date(column_with_date,'DD-MM-YYYY HH:MI:SS'))

Also, you can use the TRANSLATE function

select 
   date(translate('DD/MM/YYYY',column-with-the-date,'xyz...'))
from
   table