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Wrestling with DateTime data from SQL Sever 2000/2005 DB

  • November 5, 2013 at 8:53 am

    #300745

    Hey guys. I tried to work out the solution myself before asking for help but couldn't get this to work. So here I am.

    I have a old SQL 2005 or even 2000 table I'm pulling from and inserting into a table in a SQL 2012 DB. One field in particular is giving me a lot of grief. The data types are in fact both DateTime in the source table and the destination table. Yet, I still get the error:

    Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.

    The source data is formatted like this:

    2004-03-25 11:35:11.000

    2004-05-18 15:06:29.000

    ...and I've tried:

    CONVERT(DateTime2,[OldTable].[OldField], 121) As X

    CONVERT(DateTime,[OldTable].[OldField], 121) As X

    and have been referring to this page:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx

    No luck.

    Any thoughts?

  • November 5, 2013 at 9:32 am

    #1664181

    Resolved. Thanks

  • November 5, 2013 at 2:05 pm

    #1664251

    RedBirdOBX (11/5/2013)

    Resolved. Thanks

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