if any date time value provided to sql server can i get it's midnight value with some function in sql server.. for example if i provide 2013/07/03 01:34AM , i want to get it to 2013/07/03 12:00 AM.Is there a way to do it?
SQL Server 2008+
SELECT CAST(CAST('2013/07/03 01:34AM' AS date) AS datetime)
For older versions, see this Best approach to remove time part of datetime in SQL Server Never use anything that requires float or int or varchar conversions
This should give you what you need:
SELECT DATEADD(DAY, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, InputDateField), 0)
Should be slightly quicker than cast:
Most efficient way in SQL Server to get date from date+time?
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I need some help in understanding the following piece of code that I need to translate to SQL Server.
where
srch_req_dttm > ( Date - '+CAST(#Intval AS VARCHAR(10))+ ')
and srch_req_dttm < date
What does the "Date" part in above signify? Is it an equivalent of GETDATE() function in SQL Server?
DATE in Teradata will get the current date. To do the same in Sql Server you will need to use GETDATE()... but GETDATE() also returns the time, so it's not an exact match for the DATE function in Teradata.
You can use DATEADD(day, DATEDIFF(day, 0, GETDATE()), 0) in SQL Server, however, to get just the date back. It's pretty verbose, but I believe it's the closest match.
I'm pulling the data from SQL database. I have a couple columns with date which need to be converted into Int type, but when I do this the date changes (-2 days). I tried Cast and Convert and it's always the same.
Converting to other type works fine and returns the correct date, but doesn't work for me. I need only the date part from datetime and it needs to be recognised as a date by Excel.
Why is this happening? Any ideas how to get it sorted?
I'm using the following query:
SELECT wotype3, CONVERT(INT,wo_date2 ,103), CAST(duedate AS int) FROM Tasks WHERE
duedate > DATEADD(DAY,1, GETDATE())
AND wo_date2>0
AND wo_date2<DATEADD(WEEK,3,GETDATE())
ORDER BY wotype3
I've had big problems with this, checking my SQL Server's calculation results with "expected results" which a user had created using Excel.
We had discrepancies just because of this 2-day date difference.
Why does it happen ?
Two reasons:
SQL Server uses a zero-based date count from Jan 1 1900, but Excel uses a 1-based date count from Jan 1 1900.
Excel has a bug in it (gasp!) which makes it think that the year 1900 was a leap year. It wasn't. SQL Server correctly refuses to let you have a date value containing "29-Feb-1900".
Combine these two discrepancies, and this is why all dates, from March 1 1900 onwards, are always 2-days out.
Apparently, this Excel bug is a known issue, to keep it in line with Lotus 1-2-3.
The Intentional Date Bug
Microsoft's own explanation
From now on, I think I'll justify bugs in my code with the same excuse.
;-)
For SQL Server 2008 and above, you can use the DATE datatype.
declare #dt datetime = '12/24/2013 10:45 PM' -- some date for example
SELECT #dt as OriginalDateTime, CAST(#dt as DATE) as OnlyDate
For versions prior to SQL Server 2008, you would need to truncate the time part using one or the other functions. Here is one way to do that:
declare #dt datetime = '12/24/2013 10:45 PM' -- some date for example
SELECT #dt as OriginalDateTime, CAST(FLOOR(CAST(#dt AS FLOAT)) as DATETIME) as OnlyDate
I'm currently using
Convert(varchar, Getdate(), 101)
to insert only date part of system date into one of my sql server database tables.
my question is: is it the right way to do that or is there any other better method to do it?
I don't understand why you're converting the GETDATE() output (which is DATETIME already) to a VARCHAR and then SQL Server would convert it back to DATETIME upon inserting it again.
Just use:
INSERT INTO dbo.YourTable(SomeDateTimeColumn)
VALUES(GETDATE())
If you're doing that conversion to get rid of the time portion of the DATETIME, you should better:
use the DATE datatype (available in SQL Server 2008 and newer) to store only the DATE (no time)
if you're using SQL Server 2005 or earlier, use this conversion instead - should be much more efficient than two conversions!
INSERT INTO dbo.YourTable(SomeDateTimeColumn)
VALUES(DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, GETDATE()), 0))
Update: did some performance testing, and in this particular case, it seems the amount of work that SQL Server needs to do is really the same - regardless of whether you're using the convert to varchar stripping the time and back to datetime approach that you already have, or whether you're using my get the number of days since date 0 approach. Doesn't seem to make a difference in the end.
The BEST solution however would still be: if you only need the date anyway - use a column of type DATE (in SQL Server 2008 and newer) and save yourself any conversions or manipulations of the GETDATE() output altogether.
I've been storing date times in local time and I need to convert them all to Universal time.
How can I do this in SQL Server 2008?
By local time, I mean either BST or GMT.
i.e. I stored DateTime.Now() from .NET throughout the year, and I now need to homogenise the data.
Thanks!
please consider sending already from the c# the utc
also, there is SELECT GETUTCDATE()
in sql server
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178635.aspx
edit
if you need to update so
UPDATE SomeTable
SET DateTimeStamp = DATEADD(hh, DATEDIFF(hh, GETDATE(), GETUTCDATE()), DateTimeStamp)
Use the DATEADD function of SQL Server. You just have to know to no. of hours difference from your local to time to UTC.
Hey fellas, I'm having difficulty obtaining only the date from the system and inserting it into a column, is there a built-in function that can acquire it?
On top of that, how do I add years to the current date?
I know I'm pushing it right now, but I'm also wondering what's the format for the date datatype?
Because sometimes I'd like to manually insert values into a column with that type in mind.
Any help would greatly be appreciated.
Thanks.
To get date only (SQL Server 2008 only) CAST to date type
SELECT CAST(GETDATE() AS date)
To add years, use DATEADD
SELECT DATEADD(year, 2, CAST(GETDATE() AS date))
Formats: use yyyymmdd or ISO yyyy-mm-dd (for newer datetime types) for safety.
Read this for everything about date+time in SQL Server
To add a year to the current date, look at the dateadd() function.
To just get the date from sql w/o the time, you can do this:
DECLARE #Date DATETIME
SELECT #Date = CONVERT(VARCHAR, GETDATE(), 101)
SELECT #Date
Sql will implicity convert the VARCHAR back to DATETIME. Look up the CONVERT function in BOL and it will give you all kinds of different styles for the 3rd parameter.
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