Concat Date and String!

Question

Hello,
My requirement is that I need to concat a string with a date. I tried to convert the date to char but I am not getting the date format and then want to contact with the string.
here is the requirement:
Contact Date: 12/08/2011.
In order to do this, I tried to convert the date into string but having difficulty in getting the date format.
any help is appreciated.
Thanks -

Answer 1

manyam16 wrote:
Hello,
My requirement is that I need to concat a string with a date. I tried to convert the date to char but I am not getting the date format and then want to contact with the string.
here is the requirement:
Contact Date: 12/08/2011.
In order to do this, I tried to convert the date into string but having difficulty in getting the date format.
any help is appreciated.
Thanks -The "tricky" part to what you are asking for is that when you cast a date column as char, the format may change. For example, when I look at my system date as is (it is a date field), the format is as follows:
1/26/2012 5:53:11 AM
When I cast it as CHAR, it appears as follows:
2012/01/26 05:53:11
Why am I saying this? Because the details of the next step will be determined by where the characters are in the string. For this exercise, I will assume that after casting to CHAR, the format is as you say. Then the stringing should look something like this:
Contact Date: 12/08/2011. SUBSTRING(CAST("your date column" AS CHAR) FROM 1 FOR 2) ...to give you the 12
SUBSTRING(CAST("your date column" AS CHAR) FROM 4 FOR 2) ...to give you the 08
SUBSTRING(CAST("your date column" AS CHAR) FROM 7 FOR 4) ...to give you the 2011
So concatenating them, you get:
SUBSTRING(CAST("your date column" AS CHAR) FROM 1FOR 2)||'/'||SUBSTRING(CAST("your date column" AS CHAR) FROM 4 FOR 2)||'/'||SUBSTRING(CAST("your date column" AS CHAR) FROM 7 FOR 4)
Now you can concatenate your text to the above string...