Convert timestamp to integer in ADF dataflow

Srikanth Thota 1 Reputation point
2022-04-08T06:07:37.86+00:00

Hello All,

I need to convert timestamp(2014-06-19 00:00:00.000) to Integer(yyyyMMdd) in ADF dataflow. I have used derived column and in the expression i wrote this below

toInteger(toString(toDate('2014-06-19 00:00:00.000', 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss'), 'yyyyMMdd'))

and its working perfectly am able to convert to integer required format but the data is taking default value which i kept in the expression i.e..,2014-06-19 00:00:00.000

when i tried to replace with column name like below :

toInteger(toString(toDate('modified', 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss'), 'yyyyMMdd')) , am receiving null values.

Could someone help me here?

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  1. ShaikMaheer-MSFT 37,816 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-04-08T09:27:26.467+00:00

    Hi @Srikanth Thota ,

    Thank you for posting query in Microsoft Q&A Platform.

    As per my understanding you are trying to take a column which contains dates and want to generate integer from it in format yyyyMMdd. Please correct me if I am wrong.

    I see that you mentioned your column name in single quotes. If you do that it comes string not a column. So you should consider removing single quotes there.

    toInteger(toString(toDate('modified', 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss'), 'yyyyMMdd')) your expression. If you observe here column name modified is inside single quotes.

    Please check below screenshots for better idea.

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    Hope this helps. Please let us know if any further queries.

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