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Column from examples won't work properly

On one of my data sets, the date column won't change to date type.  It comes in the format of "yyyymmdd 00:00:00.000".  I tried to use column from examples to change it to mm/dd/yyyy so that it could be changed to date.  The problem is that column from example only shows 100 rows, all of which happen to be in february.  When I try to do column from examples, all of the new dates are in february, even when the month isn't.  

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Greg_Deckler
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@Anonymous Try splitting your column on the space and then take the first resulting column yyyymmdd and try changing it to date type.



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Greg_Deckler
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@Anonymous Try splitting your column on the space and then take the first resulting column yyyymmdd and try changing it to date type.



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That worked.  I will accept as solution!

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