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johnjasper
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 Posted - 2007-03-01 : 10:51:16
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| Here is a record in my table, the field is called "birthdate"1948-02-27 00:00:00.000When I do left(birthdate,4) I get back something like this:Feb How can I extract the year (1948) from this and why doesn't it come out correctly from my code ? |
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khtan
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Posted - 2007-03-01 : 10:58:42
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when you use left(), the date is implicitly convert to string and for your case, it is implicitly convert to Feb 27, 1948If you need the year :select year(birthdate)
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johnjasper
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Posted - 2007-03-01 : 11:04:27
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| Thank You |
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"left" function changing my datetime format ??