Converting a number to a date

I am getting data in from an outside source table as a number ex: 200807 which stands for July 2008.
I need to move the data from the source table to another table and have it be a date.
So 200807 will end up as 07/01/2008 in the final table.
Any assistance is welcome.
Thanks

Use to_date:
SQL> select to_date('200807','YYYYMM') from dual;
TO_DATE('200807','YY
01-JUL-2008 00:00:00

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Hi, from my database there is a field for date and it is a number like this: 1295944970. This corresponds to a date displayed as 1/25/2011 displayed on the website. Does anybody know how to convert the data 1295944970 from the database date field to the actual date of 1/25/2011? thanks in advance for any help.
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I'm using Crystal Reports XI. I'm coming across a problem trying to convert a
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You are getting the error "A month number must be between 1 and 12" because you are trying to convert 0 to a date. The third data item in your field data.
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Hello,
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I've converted member names to strings, manipulated the strings (calc script functions are not good at this), and turned them back into member names, but that's really the only use I've had for string manipulation. I don't think an equivalency operator even exists for string data. And I see no way to begin thinking of a member name, once converted to a string, as a number.
It makes even less sense to me to try thinking of a data value as a string. Even text values in Sys 11 are stored as numbers. Not encoded characters, but just a number to look up somewhere.
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