Coversion warnings

Hope · Post by **Hope** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:40 am

I have a date column in source.The data type is for this source date column is date.when I write it sequential target file whose datatype is also date.I get the following warning
APT_CombinedOperatorController: Conversion error calling conversion routine date_from_string data may have been lost

us1aslam1us · Post by **us1aslam1us** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:04 pm

Check the format of the source data as sometimes the time part will cause this problem. Also do check for null values too.

DSguru2B · Post by **DSguru2B** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:21 pm

How can you be so sure that the source is a Date field? If its from a text file then chances are its a string. Try doing a StringToDate() conversion on the field.