Change Format of Dates

I don't know why my company did this, but dates are being stored in a char field within our database. Meanwhile, I've been setting up new pages using datetime.

That's just a little back story. My question is, is it possible to change the format of all dates in the table from yyyy/MM/dd to MM/dd/yyyy in the char field? I'm just trying to think of an easier way to change a thousand or so records instead of doing it manually.

Thanks.

Try this:

string temp ="2006/12/16";
string[] field = temp.Split(("/").ToCharArray());
string reversedate = field[2] +"/" + field[1] +"/" + field[0];
DateTime newdate = DateTime.Parse(reversedate);

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Or better still, run this SQL

Update table set newdatefield = parsename(replace(oldchardate, '/', '.'), 2) + '/' + parsename(replace(oldchardate, '/', '.'), 1) + '/' + parsename(replace(oldchardate, '/', '.'), 3)

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try this logic

print

convert(varchar(20),convert(datetime,'2002/02/23',111),101)

so you can just do update on your table date field content by

update YourTable
set datefield=convert(varchar(20),convert(datetime,datefield,111),101)

Thanks

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I ended up using this logic in a SQL statement:

datefield=right(datefield, 5)&'/'&left(datefield, 4)

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