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  • April 17, 2014 at 2:30 am

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    CONVERT takes a style parameter which can be used to shape the output of a date-datatype to string-datatype conversion - which is the usage that most folks are familiar with. It works for input too, describing the shape of a text string for a string-datatype to date-datatype conversion.

    Your data corresponds to style 12: yymmdd. Hence, all you need to convert your data is this:

    CONVERT(DATE,LEFT(MyField,6),12).

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