Trouble Converting to Date..Pls Help....!

Question

Good day gurus!
Can anyone help me figure out how to make an appropriate sql statement in converting a "char" datatype into a "date" datatype? To be more exact this database is actually a foxpro database (.dbf). I am migrating this one to oracle. My problem is one the fields there which is likely to be "date" datatype is declared "char" . So what im trying to do is fetch that column which is actually a "char" type and convert it to "date" type using sql query. Can somebody show me the right way? I just want to pick up only the latest date (60 days to current) in that field.
heres an example.
042807 - - > 04/28/07 or 04/28/2007
Thanks in advance!
Best Regards,
JD

Answer 1

Hi,
Hope this example will help you
SYS@bahamut> desc vd.t9
Name Null? Type
TGLD DATE
SYS@bahamut> insert into vd.t9 select to_date('04012008','dd/mm/yyyy') from dual;
1 row created.
SYS@bahamut> commit;
Commit complete.
SYS@bahamut> select * from vd.t9;
TGLD
04/01/2008
cheers