Date Conversion - response (4) by harpreet singh

Here you go SELECT '12-Aug-12' AS COL1 , CAST(CASE WHEN CHAR_LENGTH(SUBSTRING(COL1 FROM 1 FOR POSITION('-' IN COL1)-1))=1 THEN '0'||COL1 else COL1 end AS DATE FORMAT 'DD-MMM-YY') ; SELECT '2-Aug-12' AS COL1 , CAST(CASE WHEN CHAR_LENGTH(SUBSTRING(COL1 FROM 1 FOR POSITION('-' IN COL1)-1))=1 THEN '0'||COL1 else COL1 end AS DATE FORMAT 'DD-MMM-YY') ; It will solve your issue.