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stringdate — Convert a string to a datetime

Synopsis

stringdate ( in str varchar );
 

Description

stringdate converts dates and timestamps from text to the internal DATETIME type.

The external format is: YYYY.MM.DD hh:mm.ss uuuuuu where uuuuuu represents number of microseconds.

If trailing parts are omitted from the string given to stringdate, they are assumed to be zero. The three first parts are mandatory. Note that use of 

cast (x as datetime)

is preferred over this function.

Parameters

str

A varchar date in human-readable (external) format.

Errors

Table 24.80. Errors signalled by datestring and stringdate

SQLState Error Code Error Text Description
22007 DT006 Cannot convert <offending string> to datetime  
22002 DT007 Nulls not allowed as parameters to stringdate  

Examples

Example 24.406. Stringdate example with datestring_GMT

We are at central european time zone CET(GMT+1). 

SQL> use Demo;

 Done. -- 3 msec.
 SQL> select (datestring_GMT (stringdate ('2000-01-01 22:00')));
 callret
 VARCHAR
 _______________________________________________________________________________

 2000-01-01 21:00:00.000000

 1 Rows. -- 45 msec.
 SQL> select left (datestring(ShippedDate), 10) from Orders
    where ShippedDate > stringdate ('1996.6.3');
 callret
 VARCHAR
 _______________________________________________________________________________

 1996-06-04
 1996-06-04
 1996-06-05
 1996-06-05
 1996-06-05

 5 Rows. -- 3 msec.

See Also

datestring

The discussion of TIMESTAMP datatype in section Database Concepts of the documentation.

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