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dibblejon
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Posted - 04/25/2012 :  09:52:57  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi

I need to convert a datetime column in a table which pulls it's data in from a third party app.

It's raw state is 2011-11-25 07:33:00.000

I want to convert this so I just get the YYYY-MM-DD and I want to retain as a date formatted field.

Apologies if this has been covered a million times before!

webfred
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Posted - 04/25/2012 :  09:55:58  Show Profile  Visit webfred's Homepage  Reply with Quote
select
convert(date,'2011-11-25 07:33:00.000')


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Lumbago
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Posted - 04/25/2012 :  09:56:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
If your'e on sql 2008 you could simply do select cast('2011-11-25 07:33:00.000' as date). If you're on 2005 or older you have to have the time-part in there as well if you want to use a datetime datatype

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dibblejon
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Posted - 04/25/2012 :  10:04:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Please forgive my ignorance.... Or poor explanation

I have just run:

SELECT        CONVERT(date, CALLDATEANDTIME) AS Date
FROM            dbo.CALLS


But get an error saying Error Message: Cannot call methods on date

The field called CALLDATEANDTIME is the field I am trying to convert.

What am I doing incorrectly?
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dibblejon
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Posted - 04/25/2012 :  10:13:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Found what I needed

DATEADD(dd, 0, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, CALLDATEANDTIME))

Returns YYYY-MM-DD 00:00:00.000

Which is fine for what we need.
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