Question

I want to convert a varchar value that iI set up to a date time value. I want to load rows of a database into another database, but conversion is not going well.

This is my query:

select Krant
       , cast(jaar as varchar(4))+'-'
          +RIGHT('0'+cast(maand as varchar(2)),2)+'-'
          +RIGHT('0'+cast(dag as varchar(2)),2) as datum
       , Inhoud as artikel
       , LEN(Inhoud)-LEN(Replace(Inhoud,' ','')) as numwords
       , 'Goirle' as vestiging 
from [Sitecore_Bibliotheekmb_Krantenknipsel].[dbo].[KRANGOI]

The cast to Datum has to be a datetime value, but i am not getting it to work properly. When i tried to cast to datetime it gave me an out of range exception.

These are the results of this query:

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I want the “Datum” field to be a Datetime field with the same values but in Datetime format. Could anyone help me please :).

Thanks,

Younes

Answer 1

Use this:

select Krant, cast(cast(jaar as varchar(4))+'-'
  +RIGHT('0'+cast(maand as varchar(2)),2)+'-'
  +RIGHT('0'+cast(dag as varchar(2)),2) as datetime) as datum, 
  Inhoud as artikel, 
  LEN(Inhoud)-LEN(Replace(Inhoud,' ','')) as numwords, 
  'Goirle' as vestiging 
from [Sitecore_Bibliotheekmb_Krantenknipsel].[dbo].[KRANGOI]