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Date Format

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:38 pm
by mydsworld
I am trying to generate date in format YYYYMMDD as required by SAP.

Transformation derivation like

StringToDate(DateToString(CurrentDate(),"%yyyy%mm%dd"),"%yyyy%mm%dd")

gives date in the form YYYY-MM-DD

Please advise.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:52 pm
by keshav0307
set the default date format for that column to YYYYMMDD

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:59 pm
by mydsworld
Where it is to be done, at the DS level or database level.

Re: Date Format

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:24 pm
by ShaneMuir
mydsworld wrote:I am trying to generate date in format YYYYMMDD as required by SAP.

Transformation derivation like

StringToDate(DateToString(CurrentDate(),"%yyyy%mm%dd"),"%yyyy%mm%dd")

gives date in the form YYYY-MM-DD

Please advise.
Do you really need the output as a date format? Can it just be a string? I would have thought that SAP is not actually expecting a date formatted column rather just a string representing a date?

If its just a string then a simple convert function will work to remove the '-'