Crystal Report Date Issue after SSIS

Hello,
I created a ETL process from Oracle to SQL, with 2 date fields, when I open CR I see them as 'string [10]' and not as date, can anybody know why is that ?
Thank you
Daniel

You need to find out if you have the source table column defined as string (CHAR/VARCHAR).
But I would not worry about CR, just use a formula. Perhaps the date format is not ISO or different than yout locale so it gets picked as text.
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