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 Validation of date field

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skk
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8 Posts

Posted - 2009-03-17 : 13:40:05
Hi

I am getting a date field as varchar like yyyymmdd from flat file.i want to check this is a date r not in my ssis before sending it to SQL.

How can i check this.

SwePeso
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30421 Posts

Posted - 2009-03-18 : 07:27:45
SELECT * FROM Table1 WHERE Col1 LIKE '[12][0-9][0-9][0-9][01][0-9][0-3][0-9]'
AND ISDATE(Col1) = 1



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