How to parse and convert string to date in Bigquery

The string value in this column looks like this "20180902". It needs to be converted to a date value in BigQuery

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Solution

Below example shows that if value is really "20180902" as you state it should work

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#standardSQL\nWITH `project.dataset.table` AS (\n  SELECT '20180902' timeStamp   \n)\nSELECT \n  `timeStamp`, \n  PARSE_DATE('%Y%m%d', timeStamp    ) AS date    \nFROM `project.dataset.table`\n

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Result:

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Row   timeStamp   date   \n1     20180902    2018-09-02

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