SQL Server remove milliseconds from datetime - sql-server

Question

select *
from table
where date > '2010-07-20 03:21:52'
which I would expect to not give me any results... EXCEPT I'm getting a record with a datetime of 2010-07-20 03:21:52.577
how can I make the query ignore milliseconds?

Answer 1

You just have to figure out the millisecond part of the date and subtract it out before comparison, like this:
select *
from table
where DATEADD(ms, -DATEPART(ms, date), date) > '2010-07-20 03:21:52'

Answer 2

If you are using SQL Server (starting with 2008), choose one of this:
CONVERT(DATETIME2(0), YourDateField)
LEFT(RTRIM(CONVERT(DATETIMEOFFSET, YourDateField)), 19)
CONVERT(DATETIMEOFFSET(0), YourDateField) -- with the addition of a time zone offset

Answer 3

Try:
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE datetime >
CONVERT(DATETIME,
CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),
CONVERT(DATETIME, '2010-07-20 03:21:52'), 120))
Or if your date is an actual datetime value:
DECLARE #date DATETIME
SET #date = GETDATE()
SELECT CONVERT(DATETIME, CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), #date, 120))
The conversion to style 120 cuts off the milliseconds...

Answer 4

select * from table
where DATEADD(ms, DATEDIFF(ms, '20000101', date), '20000101') > '2010-07-20 03:21:52'
You'll have to trim milliseconds before comparison, which will be slow over many rows
Do one of these to fix this:
created a computed column with the expressions above to compare against
remove milliseconds on insert/update to avoid the read overhead
If SQL Server 2008, use datetime2(0)

Answer 5

Use CAST with following parameters:
Date
select Cast('2017-10-11 14:38:50.540' as date)
Output: 2017-10-11
Datetime
select Cast('2017-10-11 14:38:50.540' as datetime)
Output: 2017-10-11 14:38:50.540
SmallDatetime
select Cast('2017-10-11 14:38:50.540' as smalldatetime)
Output: 2017-10-11 14:39:00
Note this method rounds to whole minutes (so you lose the seconds as well as the milliseconds)
DatetimeOffset
select Cast('2017-10-11 14:38:50.540' as datetimeoffset)
Output: 2017-10-11 14:38:50.5400000 +00:00
Datetime2
select Cast('2017-10-11 14:38:50.540' as datetime2)
Output: 2017-10-11 14:38:50.5400000

Answer 6

For this particular query, why make expensive function calls for each row when you could just ask for values starting at the next higher second:
select *
from table
where date >= '2010-07-20 03:21:53'

Answer 7

Use 'Smalldatetime' data type
select convert(smalldatetime, getdate())
will fetch
2015-01-08 15:27:00

Answer 8

There's more than one way to do it:
select 1 where datediff(second, '2010-07-20 03:21:52', '2010-07-20 03:21:52.577') >= 0
or
select *
from table
where datediff(second, '2010-07-20 03:21:52', date) >= 0
one less function call, but you have to be beware of overflowing the max integer if the dates are too far apart.

Answer 9

One more way I've set up SQL Server queries to ignore milliseconds when I'm looking for events from a particular second (in a parameter in "YYYY-MM-DD HH:TT:SS" format) using a stored procedure:
WHERE
...[Time_stamp] >= CAST(CONCAT(#YYYYMMDDHHTTSS,'.000') as DateTime) AND
...[Time_stamp] <= CAST(CONCAT(#YYYYMMDDHHTTSS,'.999') as DateTime)
You could use something similar to ignore minutes and seconds too.

Answer 10

Please try this
select substring('12:20:19.8470000',1,(CHARINDEX('.','12:20:19.8470000',1)-1))
(No column name)
12:20:19

Answer 11

I'm very late but I had the same issue a few days ago. None of the solutions above worked or seemed fit. I just needed a timestamp without milliseconds so I converted to a string using Date_Format and then back to a date with Str_To_Date:
STR_TO_DATE(DATE_FORMAT(your-timestamp-here, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s'),'%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s')
Its a little messy but works like a charm.

Answer 12

May be this will help..
SELECT [Datetime] = CAST('20120228' AS smalldatetime)
o/p:
2012-02-28 00:00:00

Answer 13

Review this example:
declare #now datetimeoffset = sysdatetimeoffset();
select #now;
-- 1
select convert(datetimeoffset(0), #now, 120);
-- 2
select convert(datetimeoffset, convert(varchar, #now, 120));
which yields output like the following:
2021-07-30 09:21:37.7000000 +00:00
-- 1
2021-07-30 09:21:38 +00:00
-- 2
2021-07-30 09:21:37.0000000 +00:00
Note that for (1), the result is rounded (up in this case), while for (2) it is truncated.
Therefore, if you want to truncate the milliseconds off a date(time)-type value as per the question, you must use:
declare #myDateTimeValue = <date-time-value>
select cast(convert(varchar, #myDateValue, 120) as <same-type-as-#myDateTimeValue>);