Select Varchar as Date

Question

I want to select a varchar field as a date field

For example a field has this value \"30.12.2011 21:15:03\"

and when i select this

select DAT         


        

Answer 1

Here is the answere to my question:

CAST
(
SUBSTRING
(field FROM 1 FOR 2)
||'.'||
SUBSTRING
(field FROM 4 FOR 2)
||'.'||
SUBSTRING
(field FFROM 7 FOR 4)
AS DATE)

This took me 5 hours to find this out, maybe there should be a "-" instead of "." but it works.