or you could do the conversion at the DB2 side, either in the select that
DTS issues or by defining a view

DATE(substr('20060430',7,2) || '/' || substr('20060430',5,2) || '/' ||
substr('20060430',1,4))

although it will depend what data format you're using locally

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro Zambrano Bojorquez
[mailto:mssqldba-ezmlmshield-x76594356.[Email address protected]
Sent: 30 May 2006 19:29
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: [Maybe Spam] migrating data from db2 as400 to sql server 2000


I need to mígrate some tables located in db2/400 to sql server 2000, but db2
not use fields date, use character to store a date, example:"200060430" in
db2, have idea how can I do this? I'ts possible to use dts services to
change this fields character to date format?





Regards

Pedro Zambrano Bojorquez





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