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BillEdd
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Posted - 03/04/2013 :  21:57:33  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have a simple select statement like:
Select FN, LN, DateApplied as ApplicationDate from MyTable

I am trying to use the Convert function on ApplicationDate to format it to mm/dd/yyyy so that the output is a little prettier.

How and where do I insert the Convert function in the Select statement? The 101 format string is OK.

Thanks

Bill

visakh16
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Posted - 03/04/2013 :  22:44:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
you should be trying to do this at front end as applying convert will make date fields come as varchar which can affect results later if you're doing some further manipulations with date like sorting etc

If you really want to do this in t-sql, use

Select FN, LN, convert(varchar(11),DateApplied,101) as ApplicationDate from MyTable


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