How can we format datetime in SQL Server

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Hi Guise,
Can you pls suggest me how we can format date & time in MS SQl server.

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Everybody

Posted 22-Sep-11 23:50pm

anjankant

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kishorekke · Answer 1 · 2011-09-23T00:04:00

select CONVERT(varchar(10),getdate(),101) RESULT : 09/23/2011
sql have some formats like 101,104,108....

1 101 U.S mm/dd/yyyy
2 102 ANSI yy.mm.dd
3 103 British / French dd/mm/yy
4 104 German dd.mm.yy
5 105 Italian dd-mm-yy
8 108 - hh:mi:ss
10 115 USA mm-dd-yy
11 111 Japan yy/mm/dd
12 112 ISO yymmdd

http://www.sql-server-helper.com/tips/date-formats.aspx

André Kraak · Answer 2 · 2011-09-22T23:54:00

Solution 1

This overview[^] should help.

Posted 22-Sep-11 23:54pm

André Kraak

Comments

RaisKazi 23-Sep-11 7:15am

Perfect link. 5!

André Kraak 23-Sep-11 7:23am

Thanks.

Bhavikkumar Chaudhari 3-Dec-15 4:32am

Good Link...!!!

hitech_s · Answer 3 · 2011-09-22T23:59:00

Solution 2

select CONVERT(varchar,yourdate column,101) from table name ;

you can user 101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109.

Posted 22-Sep-11 23:59pm

hitech_s

Rajesh Anuhya · Answer 4 · 2011-09-23T00:07:00

Here am Giving a Function am using in my applications

Try this..

SQL

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[FormatDateTime](@strDATE varchar(30))
RETURNS datetime
WITH EXECUTE AS CALLER
AS
BEGIN

     RETURN (CAST(
       SUBSTRING(@strDATE,3,2) + '-' +
       SUBSTRING(@strDATE,1,2) + '-' +
       SUBSTRING(@strDATE,5,4) + ' ' +
       SUBSTRING(@strDATE,9,2) + ':' +
       SUBSTRING(@strDATE,11,2) + ':' +
       SUBSTRING(@strDATE,13,2) as datetime));
END;

@strDate = ddmmyyyyHHmiss

Thanks

M-Caps Boss · Answer 5 · 2011-09-22T23:59:00

Solution 3

This Link is very useful to you for all queries about date & time format in MS SQL Server Queries.

Please mark this if it's helpful to u.

Posted 22-Sep-11 23:59pm

M-Caps Boss

Muralikrishna8811 · Answer 6 · 2011-09-23T00:02:00

Solution 4

Hi,

You want to pass datetime directly from sql query ha.

try this below line

SQL

 INSERT INTO TimeTab
                      (id, dtname)
VALUES     (4, '9/23/2011 3:27:51 PM')

Here you can pass in the formatt like

month/date/year

All the Best

Posted 23-Sep-11 0:02am

Muralikrishna8811