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Cervello
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Quote Cervello Replybullet Topic: Group and Sort by VarChar Date
    Posted: 16 Feb 2017 at 4:31am
I am trying to group and sort by a varchar date that has an erratic format such as this:

Hire Date
1/1/2016
12/5/2016
11/12/2016
2/12/2016

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I was thinking of creating formula fields and they sort on those....but don't know if that would work.
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 16 Feb 2017 at 6:39am
I would convert it to a date data type and use that result for sorting and/or grouping

date(table.field)

Edited by DBlank - 16 Feb 2017 at 6:39am
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Quote Cervello Replybullet Posted: 16 Feb 2017 at 7:48am
Thank you...I was definately complicating it :).
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