Date Format Conversion

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kumar3846
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Date Format Conversion

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Hi All,

I have date fromat type yyyy-mm-dd

but i have to convert it to mmddyyyy fromat


the version 7.5.2 EE parallel

pls help me out this

thank you

kumar
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vardate=(TO_CHAR(DATE, 'YYYY-MM-DD'), 6, 2):(TO_CHAR(DATE, 'YYYY-MM-DD'), 9, 2):(TO_CHAR(DATE, 'YYYY-MM-DD'), 1,4)

and then convert this back to Date

TO_DATE(vardate,'MMDDYYYY')
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Post by kumar3846 »

we have to do this in transformer or modify stage
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Post by meena »

I think it is in SQL.
kumar3846 wrote:we have to do this in transformer or modify stage
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Post by kumar3846 »

could you pls help me out how to do this in DS


Thank You
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Post by thumsup9 »

vardate= DateToString(Date,'YYYY-MM-DD') and then

StringToDate(((vardate)[6, 2]:(vardate)[9,2]:(vardate)[1,4]),'DDMMYYYY')

HTH
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