Syntax to convert Datetime to Date
Hello All,
I am very new to Veritica and i am stuck at this issue.
I have a column called 'Transactiodatetime' in my Table. I am creating a View on top of this Table but in the View i need a RequestDate column.
Below is the Syntax i am using but i am getting an Error
select to_char(transactiondatetime,'DD-MM-YYYY') as RequestDate
Error - [Error Code: 2005, SQL State: 42601] [Vertica][VJDBC](2005) ERROR: Multiple decimal points.
Can someone please help me getting the correct syntax.
Thanks in advance !!
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I also have this error. I'm using vertica 9.0.x. I wonder why experienced Vertica folks are ignoring this post for 3 years now as if the error is supposed to be self-explanatory.
Anyway, I'd like to share that the issue for me was this: I encountered the error because the column that I thought was a TIMESTAMP data type, the column that I used in the TO_CHAR function, was actually of VARCHAR data type.