Parse a date from unformatted text in SQL

Question

I\'m trying to figure out an elegant way to get a date from a text column that has data like this \"YYYYMMDD\"...so we might see \"20060508\" as a value in the column, which

Answer 1

try:

SELECT REPLACE(CONVERT(varchar(30),CONVERT(datetime, '20060508'),107),' 0',' ')

output:

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May 8, 2006

(1 row(s) affected)