What is the data type of your column? You can find that out by running this query:SELECT DATA_TYPE FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.[COLUMNS]
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'YourTableName' AND COLUMN_NAME = 'YourColumnName'
If it is DATE, DATETIME, DATETIME2, or SMALLDATETIME you are doing the right thing - don't do any changes to the table or the way the column is stored.
If you want to query the table and get the result in the "20010701" format, do it like this:SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(8),YourColumn,112);
However, it would be better for a variety of reasons to not do this conversion in SQL - instead, simply query the column, send the result to the client (such as a presentation layer) and have the client do the necessary conversion.
Datetime convert
Posted - 05/07/2012 : 07:11:56
