Sl,No Name BirthDay
1 Jojin1 2013-05-12 00:00:00.000
2 jojin2 2012-06-12 00:00:00.000
3 jojin3 2015-04-12 00:00:00.000
I have table called Datefunction. In that Birthday in above display format but I need DD/MM/YYYY. I try to convert below Query but Updating successful message, but check with Table not happening changes
UPDATE DateFunction
SET BirthDay = CONVERT(VARCHAR(15),BirthDay,103)
Firstly, I completely agree with Diamond GreezeR and Damein.
But having said that i know OP can't implement those things right now.
What you can do?
ALTER Table temp
ALTER column Datecolumn varchar(15)
update temp
set Datecolumn=CONVERT(VARCHAR(15),getdate(),103)
You cannot store the dates in that format, you can only display them.
SELECT CONVERT(varchar(10, BirthDay, 103)
FROM [Datefunction]
Other options (from my comments below):
You could create a text field and store the result of the CONVERT function. See Luv's answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16646539/909882
Another possibility is to use the DATEFORMAT option in SQL Server. However, I think this only sets the format for the session; it does not change it permanently.
Also, you could could use SET LANGUAGE to choose the date format that SQL Server expects in queries. See stackoverflow.com/questions/1187127/… as an example
Related
I am importing data from postgres into sql server. Fields where data type is 'timestamp without (or with) time zone' i used datetimeoffset in sql table but couldn't create package with the same. So i changed the datatype as datetime.
Now, when I import data,all the dates and time are coming perfectly alright but where there is no data ( blank) then its displayed as some weird date instead of NULL in my SQL table.
Those weird dates are -
1899-12-30 00:00:00.000
1753-01-01 00:00:00.000
What am i missing and how to resolve this?
Maybe that's a simple thing but I am quite new to SQL so apologies if its really easy but any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
AP
Suppose your meaningful data is from 2000 onwards, then run a update statement like:
update table
set column = NULL
where column < cast('01-01-2000' as datetime)
Is there a way to alter the outcome of getdate() while still using it as a default value? E.g. being able to plus or minus x number of hours.
The situation:
a German hosted server (GMT+2) with some end users in Australia (GMT+10). One column is using the default getdate() value therefore is inserting German time. Some code is generating a DateTime based on Australia time so there are 8 hours difference.
The objective:
For several good reasons the aim is to handle this on the database and not touch application code. I would like to add 8 hours onto the German getdate() default database value....... or handle this some other way on the database
you can use default value using DATEADD() function to add 8 hours to the date:
create table dbo.foo
(
dateColumn datetime default (dateadd(hour,8,getdate()))
)
I don't see any such option and it is little dangerous too. You can create a function with the same name GETDATE in your database, but that would require you to prefix with dbo(or schema name) while calling the function.
So, you may need to write your own function and make use of GETUTCDATE() and add delta according to timezone.
why if I do this on my SQL-Server 2008:
EXEC sp_configure 'default language', 5
reconfigure
Where the date format is dd/mm/yyyy:
select * from sys.syslanguages where langid = 5
returns
dateformat
----------
dmy
So if I do
select GETDATE()
I'm waiting for something like:
(no column name)
----------------
31/08/2013 13:20:44.590
but I get:
(no column name)
----------------
2013-08-31 13:20:44.590
I'm using SQL-Server 2008 Express compatibility mode 100
ADDED:
My real problem is that I need to pass to Stored Procedures dates in dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm to DATETIME variables, but the parser is still waiting for yyyy-mm-dd although I change the default language.
Thank you
The following is going to be rendered by Management Studio, irrespective of server settings:
SELECT GETDATE();
This is returning a datetime value to the client application, NOT A STRING. If you want a string, you can explicitly convert to a specific style:
As for the input to your stored procedures, please, please, please pass proper datetime parameters and not strings. There is no reason to allow users to enter freetext like 6/9/2013 when you really don't know if they meant September 6th or June 9th. The safe formats to pass to SQL Server are:
YYYYMMDD HH:MM:SS.nnn
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.nnn
Anything else can be misinterpreted. Which is why you shouldn't handle these as strings anywhere except at the final step of presentation / display.
you can use like this
Select CONVERT(varchar(100), GETDATE(),103)+' '
+CONVERT(varchar(100), GETDATE(),108) as now
the result is
I'm getting a cast failure and I can't fathom why.
Here's what is failing :
select cast('16/04/2012' as datetime)
The error is :
"The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted
in an out-of-range datetime value."
If I use CONVERT with a 103 for format it works without issue as you would expect.
The server is set to british date format, therefore the MSSQL account should also be defaulting to britsh format. It's been rebooted, so it shouldn't be that the service is using a different date format.
This is a SQL2005 instance.
What I really want to know is, what could be causing the CAST to fail?
Use this code:
SELECT convert(datetime, '16/04/2012',105)
Have you tried SET DATEFORMAT DMY?
Date format and datetime format are not necessarily the same. While it may implicitly add the 00:00:00 for hh:mm:ss, maybe try adding that. Type 103 only includes dd/mm/yyyy, so it of course works.
You have a data format as MM:dd:YY, and cast tries to convert you '16/04/2012' which is 'dd/MM/yy' and throws exception because 16 is less then 12 monthes.
You can either change your data format in server settings or use SET DATEFORMAT statement before your query
Are you sure the server is British language format? If I run:
set language british
select cast('16/04/2012' as datetime)
Then I get:
2012-04-16 00:00:00.000
You can check the current session language with
select ##language
The session language defaults from the login in use, assuming it's a SQL Server-provisioned login (i.e. not a Windows user). To check the language for a given user:
select loginproperty('myuser', 'DefaultLanguage')
To make a permanent server change for all newly created logins:
EXEC sp_configure 'default language', 23
reconfigure
...where 23 is the langid obtained via sp_helplanguage.
Always use a language neutral date format - it will always work regardless of any settings:
CAST('YYYYMMDD', AS DATE);
4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day and NO separators. You will never again have to worry about default language settings.
I need to change the date format from US (mm/dd/YYYY) to UK (dd/mm/YYYY) on a single database on a SQL server machine.
How can this be done?
I've seen statements that do this for the whole system, and ones that do it for the session, but I can't change the code now as it will have to go through QA again, so I need a quick fix to change the date time format.
Update
I realize that the date time has nothing to do with how SQL Server stores the data, but it does have a lot to do with how it parses queries.
I'm chucking raw data from an XML file into a database. The dates in the XML file are in UK date format.
You could use SET DATEFORMAT, like in this example
declare #dates table (orig varchar(50) ,parsed datetime)
SET DATEFORMAT ydm;
insert into #dates
select '2008-09-01','2008-09-01'
SET DATEFORMAT ymd;
insert into #dates
select '2008-09-01','2008-09-01'
select * from #dates
You would need to specify the dateformat in the code when you parse your XML data
In order to avoid dealing with these very boring issues, I advise you to always parse your data with the standard and unique SQL/ISO date format which is YYYY-MM-DD. Your queries will then work internationally, no matter what the date parameters are on your main server or on the querying clients (where local date settings might be different than main server settings)!
You can only change the language on the whole server, not individual databases. However if you need to support the UK you can run the following command before all inputs and outputs:
set language 'british english'
Or if you are having issues entering datatimes from your application you might want to consider a universal input type such as
1-Dec-2008
Although you can not set the default date format for a single database, you can change the default language for a login which is used to access this database:
ALTER LOGIN your_login WITH DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=British
In some cases it helps.
If this really is a QA issue and you can't change the code. Setup a new server instance on the machine and setup the language as "British English"
Use:
select * from mytest
EXEC sp_rename 'mytest.eid', 'id', 'COLUMN'
alter table mytest add id int not null identity(1,1)
update mytset set eid=id
ALTER TABLE mytest DROP COLUMN eid
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[yourtablename] ADD DEFAULT (getdate()) FOR [yourfieldname]
It's working 100%.
You do realize that format has nothing to do with how SQL Server stores datetime, right?
You can use set dateformat for each session. There is no setting for database only.
If you use parameters for data insert or update or where filtering you won't have any problems with that.
For SQL Server 2008 run:
EXEC sp_defaultlanguage 'username', 'british'