RE: Covering date error – SQLServerCentral

ChrisM@Work

SSC Guru

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September 3, 2015 at 2:30 am

#1824208

in section 9

-- 9 - Populate the #ParsedFileList table with the final data

INSERT INTO #ParsedFileList

(DateTimeStamp,

LSN,

FileSize,

FileName1)

SELECT LTRIM(SUBSTRING (Col1, 1, 20)) AS 'DateTimeStamp',

LTRIM(SUBSTRING(Col1, 71, 6)) AS 'LSN',

LTRIM(SUBSTRING (Col1, 21, 18)) AS 'FileSize',

LTRIM(SUBSTRING (Col1, 40, 1000)) AS 'FileName1'

FROM #OriginalFileList

ORDER BY LSN

comment out the INSERT part and run the query - instead of running the results into the table, it will return them to your screen. Check that column 1 values can be converted to date.

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