My date is stored in a type date column in dd/mm/yyyy format. I want to print the date in yyyymmdd format.
When i used the following formula
tonumber(totext(db.colname,'YYYYMMDD'))
It gave me a "the string is non numeric" error when previewing the report.
Secondly,
My time is stored in a string column in 12 hour format. I want to display it as hh24miss format.
How do i do that ?
First of all, you should NOT store dates/times as text in your database.
Use the apropriate datatype of your DBMS.
Otherwise you will very likely have further problems because of this.
When you've changed the datatype you could just drag&drop the database-field inside your report and use the formatting options of Crystal Reports to get the desired format.
If for any reason (I doubt there's a good one) you can't change the datatype, use the following formula.
ToText(Date({db.colname}), "yyyyMMdd")
This formula converts the string to a date and then formats the date with yyyyMMdd format.
Notice the uppercase M which is used for the month. Lowercase m is used for minutes.
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I am loading a flat file to a database table, and need to change the format of the date from YYYY-MM-DD in the flat file, to MM/DD/YYYY in the database table. I tried using the following statement in Derived Columns as shown below, but not sure how to configure the statement, so I got an error message stating that SSIS could not parse the expression.
Derived Column Name: EFF_DATE
Derived Column: Replace EFF_DATE
Expression: TOKEN( MONTH([EFF_DATE]),"//|",DAY([EFF_DATE]),"//|",YEAR([Copy of EFF_DATE]) )
DATA TYPE: databasetimestamp[DT_DBTIMESTAMP]
Can anyone help me determine how to change the format of the column in Derived Column? Otherwise, please let me know if there is another way to do it. Thank you.
This question was different from the last one. In the last question, the date column was data type DateTime. But in this question, the date is a string, and when I used the Derived Column to change the date from YYYY-MM-DD to MM/DD/YYYY, it kept the leading zeroes in MM and DD. The issue then became, not just changing the date format, but also removing the leading zeroes from the Month and Day.
However, I researched and came up with a better solution in SSIS for changing the date value with data type string, as the database I am working with stores the date in that format.
I removed the Derived Column from my Data Source Task, and added an Execute SQL Task in the Control Flow, then added the following Update statement which not only changes the format from YYYY-MM-DD to MM/DD/YYYY, but also removes the leading zeroes from Month and Day. The CONCAT function I used the sample SQL below changes the format from YYYY-MM-DD to MM/DD/YYYY, while the Convert function changes the MM and DD values to data type INT which removed any leading Zeros. This solution allowed the date to remain a string, as that was the table format I had to work with.
UPDATE [StagingTable]
SET START_DATE =
CONCAT( CONVERT(INT, SUBSTRING(START_DATE, 6,2)), '/', CONVERT(INT, RIGHT(START_DATE, 2)),'/', LEFT(START_DATE,4) )]
Thanks to everyone for their comments, as it helped me to think outside the box and determine this solution.
I am trying to load some data from a .csv file into my SQL Server. There is a column for date which has datatype Unicode (WSTR) in the .csv file and the column for storing that date in SQL Server is of Datetime data type.
When I used DATA CONVERSION transformation to convert WSTR data to DBTIMESTAMP data, it got changed but with an error that it interchanged the month and date which gives me the wrong date.
The date should be like 2019-09-03 (for 3rd Sep 2019), but I get 2019-03-09.
Please suggest what the issue is that I am facing?
Problem
This may occurs when converting a string to a date value without specifying the date format. Reffering to the SSIS data conversion transformation official documentation:
If you are converting data to a date or a datetime data type, the date in the output column is in the ISO format, although the locale preference may specify a different format.
Assume that the data is stored in the csv file with the following date format MM/dd/yyyy and the default date format in the regional settings is dd/MM/yyyy then date values will not be converted properly.
Solution
In order to specify the date format you have to use a Script Component or a Derived column.
Derived Column
You have to reorder the date part manually, you can use TOKEN() and TOKENCOUNT() function to do that, the following expression convert dd/MM/yyyy format into yyyy-MM-dd universal format:
TOKEN([DateColumn],"/",3) + "-" + RIGHT("0" + TOKEN([DateColumn],"/",2),2) + "-" +RIGHT("0" + TOKEN([DateColumn],"/",1),2)
Script Component
You can use DateTime.ParseExact() function to parse a date based on a specific format:
DateTime.ParseExact(Row.DateColumn,"MM/dd/yyyy",System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture");
I've had a similar problem with dates before.
I'm querying a proprietary CMS database that stores dates as a string 'YYYYMMDD'.
I'm using...
convert(varchar(10),right(VarCompletionDate,2)+'/'+substring(VarCompletionDate,5,2)+'/'+left(varCompletionDate,4), 103)
to convert to 'DD/MM/YYYY' format. On the SQL side this appears to work but in Excel, the date is treated like a string rather than a date and I'm not getting the date filters that you would get with a proper date field...
what am I doing wrong here? is the convertconverting to a varchar rather than a date? ...if I do Convert(date,... I get conversion errors.
In excel, you can select a data cell and confirm that the data does not have an apostrophe sign as suffix.
This forces excel to treat the data as text. If you do find it, please do a find and replace all in your selected data range.
If there is no apostrophe, select your data and go to Home>Number>format dropdown and then select long date or short date as the format type.
This will then bring up the date filters.
Managed to find the answer!
Convert(date,....)
Was the correct treatment to output a date format from SQL.
The Pivot table wouldn't recognise the field as a date after a refresh unless I recreated the pivot table - there must be some kind of data type persistence going on in Excel.
In the crystals I have to convert the date into date Part as below format.
If date is 1) 23/09/2015 the convert in the format like Sept-2015
2) 21/3/2015- mar-2015
3) 19/2/2015 feb-2015
check it also possible in Sql server.
In Crystal Report Design, Right Click on date field->select Format field. Now you can see more date formats including your required format
I would like to keep my dates as datetime datatype by also be in MM/DD/YYYY format. I know how to do this by converting them to a varchar, but want to keep the datetime format. Can anyone help with this?
Currently I have tried
SELECT CONVERT(datetime, GETDATE(), 101)
which is not working...
There is a basic misunderstanding in your question. Repeat after me: Datetimes don't have a format.
It helps if you think of them as just an array of seven integers (year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds) with certain constraints. That's not in any way accurate, but it helps to get the notion out of your head that something akin to 12/31/2015 is stored in your database.
Datetimes only get a format when (implicitly or explicitly) being converted to strings. You already know how to set the format when explicitly converting to string, now all that is left to do is to find the implicit conversion that is obviously bothering you and replace it with an explicit one.
Date and datetime Values stored in the database are NOT in any recognizable format. They are stored in binary (1s and 0s) in a proprietary format where one part represents the number of days since a defined reference date (1 jan 1900) in SQL server). and the other part represents the time portion of the value. (in sql server, its the number of 1/300ths of a second since midnight.)
ALL formatting of dates and date times, no matter what format you wish for, is done only after the values have been extracted from the database, before you see them on screen, in whatever application you are using.
You can find all the formats that the SQL Server convert function can use on this MSDN Convert Link