InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comTue, 21 May 2013 14:27:28 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1400722-391-1.aspx[quote][b]lonhanner (12/27/2012)[/b][hr]Yes the data came from ACCESS. I imported to sql. Is their anyway I can convert the "UP_DATE" Column to the sql date type. If so could you give me an example query to do this.ThanksLon[/quote]Not sure what datatype it is now or if everything in it will convert correctly but...[code]alter table MyTablealter column MyColumn datetime[/code]Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:24:03 GMTSean Langehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1400722-391-1.aspxYes the data came from ACCESS. I imported to sql. Is their anyway I can convert the "UP_DATE" Column to the sql date type. If so could you give me an example query to do this.ThanksLonThu, 27 Dec 2012 12:54:43 GMTlonhannerhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1400722-391-1.aspx[quote][b]lonhanner (12/27/2012)[/b][hr]I have a column called "UP_DATE". When the code below trys to read "UP_DATE" I get the following riders.UP_DATE = CDate(reader("UP_DATE").ToString)error. Conversion from string "" to type date is not valid. It looks as its tring to convert time. here is the data I get. riders.UP_DATE #12:00:00 AM#. Anyone have a solution to how to fix this column. When i query the data in SQL server manegement it displays the date fine. I have other date fields and they convert ok.[/quote]What is this code and what does #12:00:00 AM# mean? That looks like data from Access or something.The error message is however pretty self explanatory. Whatever is reading your table it is getting an empty string in reader("UP_DATE") which can't be cast to a datetime object in many languages. t-sql will convert an empty string to 1/1/1900 but .NET will throw an exception when parsing a date from an empty string.Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:34:29 GMTSean Langehttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1400722-391-1.aspxI have a column called "UP_DATE". When the code below trys to read "UP_DATE" I get the following riders.UP_DATE = CDate(reader("UP_DATE").ToString)error. Conversion from string "" to type date is not valid. It looks as its tring to convert time. here is the data I get. riders.UP_DATE #12:00:00 AM#. Anyone have a solution to how to fix this column. When i query the data in SQL server manegement it displays the date fine. I have other date fields and they convert ok.Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:51:11 GMTlonhanner