Date conversion

Hi all,
In my AS400 source I have tables with date fields, if I import a table with a package to a text file, there are dates like “0001-01-01”. Before I import directly my AS400 tables into Access without problems because Access read those date as “1901-0
1-01”. Now we have to move to a SQL server. If I try to import with SQL Package it crash unless I first change the fields in my SQL table to varChar(15), do the importation, change the value “0001-01-01” to “1901-01-01” and then alter the data t
ype back to smalldatetime. I have a lot of tables with numerous date fields. I try to link the AS400 source to my SQL Server, I still could not read tables that have dates like “0001-01-01”. I could not do modification to the AS400 source. Is there a
way to solve that problem?
Thanks.
Jean-Paul
Montreal
JP,
have a look at
select convert (datetime, '2' + substring('0001-01-01',2,20),20)
I have had to remove the first zero and replace it with a 2 for this to
work.
Regards,
Paul Ibison
|||Thanks,
but not all the record have this value. When I import with package, I could go around it. But I need to be live, so, from my SQL Server, I link into the AS/400. If I try to open a AS/400 table that has “0001-01-01” date, it said “conversion failure
.
Regards,
Jean-Paul
|||JP,
how about trying openquery and use as/400 syntax to convert to a valid sql
datetime format? I don't know AS400 syntax for this, but I'm hoping you
might :-)
HTH,
Paul Ibison