How to convert date from one format to another?

Question

I\'m having the date in this format in a Excel worksheet 03-Dec-10. So its not compatible while inserting it into the database. How to convert the date to the acceptable format?

Answer 1

If you're doing this from Excel itself, you can put this formula into another column

=TEXT(A2, "YYYYmmdd")

Then copy down. This produces a compatible 8-digit date.