TO_DATE

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition

Parse a string value to a SQL DATE type (represented by java.sql.Date) using a vendor specific formatting pattern.

The pattern is not translated by jOOQ for vendor agnosticity and may need to be adapted depending on the SQL dialect you're using.

SELECT TO_DATE('20200203', 'YYYYMMDD');

create.select(toDate("20200203", "YYYYMMDD")).fetch();

The result being

+------------+
| to_date    |
+------------+
| 2020-02-03 |
+------------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

toDate("20200203", "YYYYMMDD")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, DB2, EXASOL, HSQLDB, ORACLE, POSTGRES, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
to_date('20200203', 'YYYYMMDD')

-- SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER
convert(
  date,
  '20200203',
  112
)

-- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, COCKROACHDB, DERBY, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, INFORMIX, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, 
-- SQLITE, SYBASE, TERADATA
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.17, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

The jOOQ User Manual : SQL building : Column expressions : Datetime functions : TO_DATE

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