Converting date to Timestamp !!

[its_me48]

Hello:

I get an external file that has "Record Date" as MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MM (11/19/2009 18:24) format.. The rows abort trying to load into oracle table due to the date/time format. In oracle that 'Record Date' is defined as Timestamp (YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS). Upon using search functionality here, I used Iconv/Oconv functions without any luck... I am home and cannot paste what I am doing...
Any pointers or code to help me convert the input column from "MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI" to Oracle's "YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS" format is highly appreciated.

Thank You,
-Sam

[ray.wurlod]

For the date portion

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Oconv(Iconv(Left(InLink.Fieldname,10),"DMDY"),
"D-YMD[4,2,2]")

For the time portion

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Oconv(Iconv(Right(InLink.Fieldname, 5), "MT"),"MTS")

Concatenate these with a space between.

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Oconv(Iconv(Left(InLink.Fieldname,10),"DMDY"), "D-YMD[4,2,2]") : " " : Oconv(Iconv(Right(InLink.Fieldname, 5), "MT"),"MTS")

[chulett]

You could also just use the square bracket 'substring operators' to rearrange the date, then cat on the time and the zero seconds you'll need.

[its_me48]

Ray and chulett,

Thanks much. Problem solved. Tried both ways.. BTW, I was not doing IConv right....

-Sam