I am retrieving a bunch of values out of one database, trying to fix the format and reinsert into a different master database, which would usually be fine, but 3 of my values are giving me a heck of a time. There are three numeric values in the first DB that I would like to format into a date time and insert into the new DB 

#Taking the values one at a time, and assigning to variables
$DOBYear = $ayDOB_Year[$i];
$DOBMonth = $ayDOB_Month[$i];
$DOBDay = $ayDOB_Day[$i];

#Concatonating the string
$ODBCDate = sprintf("%4d-%02d-%02d", $DOBYear, $DOBMonth, $DOBDay);

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Up to hear everything is groovy, but when I try to insert this into the new SQL table I am getting the following error:

Error:
[242] [2] [0]
"[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]
The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range date time value."

Ok so then I tried casting it on the insert statement, and it still isn't working! 

$sqlInsert = "Insert into tblMaster (List_Name_, Gender_, First_Name_,
+ Last_Name_, Full_Name_, Address_1_, City_, State_, Zip_Code_, SCF_Co
+de_, Country_, Email_, Domain_Name_, TLD_, DOB_) Values ('$ListName',
+'$Gender','$FirstName','$LastName','$FullName','$Address','$City','$S
+tate','$Postal','$SCF','$Country', '$Email','$DomainName','$TLD', cas
+t('$ODBCDate' as datetime))";

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When I print the SQL statement out to the window and paste into SQL it works fine!! Anyone have any insight??

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In reply to perl dates into string into SQL by jenalice

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