On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Venkat Rao Tammineni
<vtammineni@roulacglobal.com> wrote:
> I have one table which has lot of data.In the same table I have one
> varchar filed. I want to convert into Date data type? Is It possible to
> convert varchar to date datatype with out loosing data.Please guide me.I am
> waiting for your great response.
An easy solution would be to add a new column to the table, of type
date, and then execute an update statement that reads, for each row,
the value in the varchar field and writes the converted value to the
date field.
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