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  • April 23, 2009 at 8:38 am

    #982962

    Try this:

    declare @testdate varchar(50), @realdate datetime

    set @testdate = 'Monday, January 28, 2008'

    set @realdate = SUBSTRING(@testdate, CharIndex(', ', @testdate)+2, 50)

    select @testdate, @realdate

    Wayne
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
    Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

    If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!
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