SQL QUERY - Dates

Hi Everyone
I want to chabge a format for a date which is stored as Text in this format
'2008/04/01 00:00:00'.I tried to_char but it returns an error message saying
"The attempted conversion of a character string to a number failed because the character string was not a valid numeric literal"
Thanking in advance

use to_date
Select to_date('2008/04/01 00:00:00','rrrr/dd/mm hh24:mi:ss') d_date From dual;Message was edited by:
Nicloei W

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