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Changing Date formats in Target Tables in informatica

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In informatica i receive dates from flat files in the format of dd-mm-yyyy and dd/mm/yyyy i need to convert all date to one format i.e dd-mm-yyyy using any expression and push into target ,so no rows gets rejected.how to proceed with them?

posted Sep 16, 2014 by Sachin

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If you are handling data as "date" data type, you should have no problems with respect to rejections.

About handling a particular date format string, you can look at the properties at the integration service level, there you can control the date format (default).

answer Sep 18, 2014 by Shweta Singh
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