My current Query takes the DATE value stored in P.CreatedDate and makes it VARCHAR, then stores it in the table. I need to format this to return YYYYMMDD. How would I go about this?
Current Code:
Code:
CAST(P.CreatedDate AS VARCHAR) AS DateEntered,
Aim – Currently i have column “[LAST-STATUS-CHG]” in the following date format “042312” i need this date format to be changed into “23-04-12”.
Also i would like an additional column created called “Start of month” this column should look at “[LAST-STATUS-CHG]” and what ever the day is in the defauly it to 01
Current results
FDMSAccountNoACCOUNT-STATUSLAST-STATUS-CHG
87800000088416042312
87800000088513011212
87800000088612100712
Desired results
FDMSAccountNoACCOUNT-STATUSLAST-STATUS-CHGStart_of_month
8780000008841623-04-1201-04-12
8780000008851301-12-1201-12-12
8780000008861210-07-1201-07-12
My query is
SELECT [FDMSAccountNo]
,[ACCOUNT-STATUS],
[LAST-STATUS-CHG]
FROM [FDMS].[dbo].[stg_LMPAB501]
where FDMSAccountNo = '878000000884'
Howdy,
I live in Australia and use the date format of - dd/mm/yyy, but when i do a query in SQL Management it seems to want its inputs in US format mm/dd/yyy.
For example it errors when i do a search and one of the dates is 27/11/2007, ie there is no 27th "US" Month.
I have checked my local settings (regional and language in control panel), and it all points to Australian formats, it just seems the SMS wants the dates in US.
Any Ideas?
Dwayne Schaffarz
SQL 2k w2k server sp2
When I first installed the SQL server on my server, the default date
format was mm/dd/yy. Now I need to change that to dd/mm/yy in
regional settings, but its still not reflected in the DB's in SQL (its
still mm/dd/yy).
Is it possible to change it in SQL without a complete reinstallation
of the server?
I have a column (varchar (50)), It has values from 1-12.
I want to cast them to their appropriate months.
Example: 1 = January
2 = Febuary
3 = March
etc.
I have a varchar field which should contain dates but unfortunately it is fill with all sorts of imaginary formats which only the one who has typed may understand.
9+03/24/2006
3/16/2006
11:15AM
5-Oct
8/8/2006
9
.
`06/27/2006
12505
1/9/2007
1/12/2007
1/12/2007
1/15/2007
in a data set of 15000 rows most of them are like '1/15/2007'
and 305 roes are like the rest in the sample.
can you sugest ma a simple way to convert posible data to format '1/15/2007' format which i can use in a SELECT...INSERT STATEMENT and convert the rest to NULL
I have a column which is
Data type : varchar(10)
Date format : 8/5/2013
I want to convert that column to the following
Data type varchar: (8)
Date format : 20130805
With this clause "select convert(varchar(16), getdate(), 101)" I can get mmddyyyy but
How can I get time such as mmddyyyyhhmm
Thanks
Daniel
Fields!TaskStartDate.Value & Fields!TaskName.Value & Fields!StatusForExecutiveReporting.Value & Fields!NotesForExecutiveReport.Value
This is my expression in a cell.when i run my report task start date value is something like the:
01/25/2015 8:00:00AM.
I want this date to be in this form: jan 2015
Hi.
Current development setup: Visual Studio 2005 (C# language), SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.
I am at this point changing some of my application. It stores a lot of information for times of trains. I decode a file which is text based and my times are stored in varchar(4) columns with the format "HHmm".
I am now at a stage where I need to add values to these times and perform a search based on two time values (a minimum time and maximum time).
I really need to be able to add another varchar(4) value to the times stored in my database (also varchar(4) - may look at this again in future). I have absolutely no interest in storing seconds, modifying the database to include the time colon, nor am I interested in the date portion of a time string, only the 4 digits representing the hours and minutes.
Can this be done easily in SQL server? For example:
varchar(4) of 0445 + varchar(4) of 0027 should result in the time 0512.
Similarly a varchar(4) of 2358 + varchar(4) of 0015 should result in the time 0013.
This has to be very quick to execute.
Thanks for any help you can offer!
Sean
I know that if I have an nvarchar column I can use an equality like = N'supersqlstring' so it doesn't implicit cast as a varchar, like if I were to do ='supersqlstring'. And then I'll be a big SQL hero and all my stored procedures will run before a millisecond can whisper.
But if I'm comparing an nvarchar column to a varchar column, is it better to cast the varchar 'up' to an nvarchar or cast the nvarchar 'down' to a varchar?
For instance:
cast(a.varchar as nvarchar(100)) = an.nvarchar
or
cast(an.nvarchar as varchar(100)) = a.varchar
Leaving aside non-matching, like (at least I don't think) that SQL considers the varchar n to be equal to the nvarchar ń, what's the best way to handle this?
Pretend for a moment that each column contains a mixed letter and number ID with no accented or wiggly-squiggly Unicode characters; it's just designs clashing.
Is there a performance hitch doing it one way or another? Should I use COLLATE? Should one of the columns be altered?
if I 'print' a MONEY value, or cast a MONEY variable to VARCHAR, it automatically rounds it to two decimal places. Maybe that's a built-in convenience, but I'd like to make it not do that.My workaround right now is to first cast my MONEY variabled to DECIMAL(30,4), and then cast the result to VARCHAR, but I'd like to avoid that step if possible.Consider the following
query:DECLARE @UnitCost MONEY SET @UnitCost = .0167 SELECT @UnitCost,
CAST(@UnitCost AS VARCHAR(30)),
CAST(CAST(@UnitCost AS DECIMAL(30, 4)) AS VARCHAR(30)) -
- Results in: 0.0167, 0.02, 0.0167
Hi All
My brain has truned to mush at the moment.
:(
I want to sort on a char(5) column with data in it that looks like
01/07
05/02
06/01
12/01
07/98
so it comes out in the human date order.
e.g
07/98
06/01
12/01
05/02
01/07
--
David
I am selecting older legacy data from an AS400 mainframe that we still use. I am fairly new to constructing T-SQL statements so I hope I am doing this correctly. There is a table from the AS400 that has been setup with a field for TMONTH, TDAY, and TYEAR. Instead of having one field for a date, for some reason years ago this was set up this way.
I now have this statement in my SELECT statement and it is not working:
WHERE (CAST(OWNR.TMONTH + '/' + OWNR.TDAY + '/' + OWNR.TYEAR AS DATETIME) >= @startdate)
I am not getting a syntax error, however I am getting "Error Converting data type varchar to numeric. These fields on the AS400 are set up as numeric fields.
What do I need to do differently? Should I use a CONVERT instead and if so, how would I structure that statement.
Thanks for the help
E.g, i have a store procedure. The start date is long date (4/15/2007 3:00pm). i want to select the start date with a particular date (short date format 4/15/2006). Thanks in advance.
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Thanks!
Wendy Schuman
Hi
I am trying get my VB6 application to insert a record into a table (SQL Express) which has a datetime column but it would not process if the data format is differ to *American Date format*.
The date() function in VB returns 15/11/2006 which is in Australian Date format (DD/MM/YYYY) according to my setting in "Reginal and Lanuage Option-> Locale 0> English (Australia)" setting.
I get the following error:
Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Server KITSQLEXPRESS, Line 1
The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.
The statement has been terminated.
My computer's locale is set to English (Australia) and I expect the datetime format would follow what is set in system locale
I've read an article somewhere on the net about how SQL 2005 eliminate the confusion of date conversion when read/write datetime records into a table...but it seems to me that it is still as in-flexible as MS Access
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Thanks
I am trying to pull the records which are being affected i.e, comparing the values and if not same then populating the record.
I am using the below condition in where clause however i am getting runt time error as "Conversion failure when converting date and/or time from character string"
Condition in Where clause:
cast(isNull(tab1.Col1,'') as datetime) <> cast(isNull(tab2.col1,'') as datetime)
Note: Both col1 columns are of type nvarchar
Does anybody know how could I calculate the new date(adding @c to @bor subtracting @b to @c), having for example a declaration like this:DECLARE @a CHAR(12)DECLARE @b DATETIMEDECLARE @c INTSET @b='3.04.04';SET @c=6and to calculate the number of days between two dates with this kindof declaration(@a-@b or @b - @a):DECLARE @a CHAR(12)DECLARE @b DATETIMEDECLARE @c INTSET @a='12.2.04';SET @b='3.04.04';Thanks in advance.
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Thanks.
I have a column of data in a table that has date formatted as '2006-03-26 00:00:00.000'
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Thanks ahead of time
DMW
Edit:
We are running SQL Server 2000 and the db at the time was running in simple mood
I can't get a varchar to datetime conversion to work. The varchar data is in the form yyyymmddhhmi
I tried convert(datetime, '200508310926')
also tried cast('200508310926' as datetime) both have error "Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string"
Is there a format code that needs to be there? If so, I can't figure out what it should be.
I eventually need to convert these to dates and compare them to getdate, example:
...where convert(datetime, dtfield) >= getdate()-1
Hi,
I have an ASP.NET application that uses VARCHAR extensively in the tables and, more importantly, stored procedures (a couple hundred of them).
This app needs to start accepting foreign language in some areas, so I was wondering if there was some way to go through the tables and, more importantly, the stored procedures and change all "VARCHAR" references to "NVARCHAR" ?
Are the stored procedures stored as a text file somewhere on the server? If so I could use some sort of "replace" software utility to go through and change all VARCHAR to NVARCHAR
thanks!
-Bret
Hi Everyone,I have a question about dynamically changing the length of a varchar(n)field, in case the value I'm trying to insert is too big and will givea "truncated" error, but before the error is given! i.e. Is there somekind of a way to "test" the length of the field while Inserting thevalue into it, and to have it automatically increase its length to thelength of the value being inserted, in case the value is too big?I've been able to do this in a "primitive" way, simply by identifyingthe specific error number in case the value is being truncated, andthen increasing the length of the varchar(n) field by using the ALTERcommand, and then duplicating the insert statement, but is there astandard (shorter) way of doing this?Here is my code (I'm working in an ASP environment):<%var_txt = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345678789"sql = "Insert Into Table1 (text) Values ('" & var_txt & "')"On Error Resume Nextconn.Execute sqlIf err = -2147217833 ThenResponse.Write "Error Recognized Successfully!<br /><br />"sql = "ALTER TABLE Table1 ALTER COLUMN text VARCHAR(" &Len(var_txt) &") NOT NULL"On Error Resume Nextconn.Execute sqlIf err<>0 ThenResponse.Write "Error while trying to alter Column:<br/>" & err & "= " & err.description & "<br />"ElseResponse.Write "Column altered successfully to: " &Len(var_txt) &"<br />"sql = "Insert Into Table1 (text) Values ('" & var_txt &"')"On Error Resume Nextconn.Execute sqlIf err<>0 ThenResponse.Write "<br />Error number 2:<br />" &err.description &"<br />"ElseResponse.Write "Now it was added successfully!HaHa!<br />"End IfEnd IfElseResponse.Write "Success."End If%>Thanks in advance!
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Hi all,
I'm trying to get an understanding of a serious problem I have with a large DB in production. This is going to be obvious to someone (everyone probably) <bg>
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NozFx
I have date coming to one page as a string in the following format"May 4 2005 12:00AM"
I need to query one of my tables using this date in combination of other nondate values. How can I convert this date into valid sql server datetime format before I query a database tables
Please help
Hi there,
Its probably easier to draw this problem than describe it, so here goes:
I have a sales forecast table (A,B,C are products [PRODUCT], the dates refer to the month for which the forecast is [FORECAST_DATE], and the integer is the forecast sales qty [FORECAST_QTY])
A 01/03/2004 30
B 01/03/2004 28
C 01/03/2004 24
A 01/04/2004 11
B 01/04/2004 09
C 01/04/2004 41
I need to convert the table into a more sensible format, like this:
(NB ...Dots are just there to help with formatting - basically I'm talking about a field for FORECAST_03_2004, FORECAST_04_2004 etc etc)
........ 01/03/2004....01/04/2004
A..........30..................11
B..........28..................09
C..........24..................41
I'm really no t-SQL guru, and I can't seem to get any joy out of BOL. It must only be a tiny bit of code. Can anyone help?
Thanks very much
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Hi,
Iam migration data from a table into a comma delimited flatfile,but i need to specify all the columns within [ " ] in the flatfile
for example
i have a column [Name] the values are John,Mani,Raghu.....
The flat file should be outputted as
"John"
"Mani"
"Raghu"
Is there anyway to do this.Pls help.
Thanks,
SVGP
OK Here is what I am trying to do... In one of my processes I need to take a field IE CREATE_DATE and change that from an EPOCH (number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970) to a human readable date... IE a 04/02/2008 08:23:36 AM and stuff... Now I do know how to use the dateadd... However all my times are coming up as GMT I need them to be EST/EDT... How can I script this to automagically subject 5 or 4 from the hour depending on if we are in daylight savings. This has been plagueing me for the longest time.
Thank you all for any help you can give.
Hello,
I have this column of time values:
00:00:03.3592675
00:00:00
00:00:03.8592515
00:00:03.6873820
00:00:03.8436270
00:00:03.3436430
It is in varchar format. I tried converting it to datetime but get an invalid format error message.
How can I sum up these values and average them out?
Thanks!
--PhB