在 Athena AWS SQL 中将字符串转换为日期类型

Question

I have a column that called date with the following format: '20220816' how can I convert this column into Date format?

I tried to use this function: date_parse(date,'%y/%m/%d') but it keep giving me this error: NVALID_FUNCTION_ARGUMENT: Invalid format: "20220627" is malformed at "220627"

Answer 1

You have to remove the slashes from your query. Below query convert it to date format for you. Just replace the string with the column containing values

select cast(date_parse('20220816','%Y%m%d') as date)