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Problem Importing Column

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rcr69er
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

327 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-03 : 05:18:31

Hi

I have a column in a .txt file that I am trying to import.
The field shows the time of a transaction in the format of "12:20 AM"
Does anyone know a way of importing the field as a time field as opposed to a VARCHAR type? I have tried importing it as a datetime type, but this doesnt seem to work.

Thanks

mcrowley
Aged Yak Warrior

771 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-03 : 13:30:39

SQL Server 2005 has no concept of a "time" datatype. Time datatypes are added to SQL 2008 (Katmai), though.

Is there a date that the transaction is also tied to, or do you only have the time?

Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-03 : 14:22:05

SQL Server can convert that to a datetime datatype with a default date of 1900-01-01:


select TIME_ONLY = convert(datetime,'12:20 AM')


Results:
TIME_ONLY                                              
------------------------------------------------------ 
1900-01-01 00:20:00.000

(1 row(s) affected)

CODO ERGO SUM

X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-03 : 14:27:56

Care to let us know how you are doing the "importing"

It's a little grey

Buy as MVJ states:


 DECLARE @d datetime
     SET @d = '12:20 AM'
  SELECT @d

Works just fine

Brett

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