I have an SSRS report that you can click on to drill down and see more details about a cell. To do this, when you click a cell it passes parameters that populate a SQL statement in another report.
One of the parameters that it passes is a short date, mm/dd/yyyy. My problem is when month or day do not have double digits. So....
Short date = 1/1/2013
SQL 101 format = 01/01/2013
When the short date is passed, it doesn't match the SQL version exactly so it doesn't find any records when it should.
This returns nothing:
where convert(char(10),dt.DATE_CREATED, 101) like '1/1/2013'
BUT, this returns all of the rows I need:
where convert(char(10),dt.DATE_CREATED, 101) like '01/01/2013'
My problem is I need to somehow do this conversion of adding these zeros within SSRS...
You should be able to use the VB function DateTime.Parse
DateTime.Parse(Fields!yourValue.Value)
This fixed my problem:
convert(char(10),dt.DATE_CREATED, 101) = Convert(datetime, #day)
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I have over 65 columns among which there are about 30 Date Columnns. I want to set it to MM/DD/YYYY. Presently it is also showing the time YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss. I tried correcting this within the SQL query by using cast. The SQL output shows only date, but it again gets represented in DateTime in SSRS. I dont want to right click on 30 columns manually to set date format. Is there a way to set default date format for all date columns in the report?
"Cast" is not helping here since it is about types, not format.
Try using the "convert" function instead.
In your case, it would be
-- use your field name instead of sysdatetime()
select convert(varchar, sysdatetime(), 101/*mm/dd/yyyy format Id*/);
You should be able to select all the fields in the tablix and change the formatting together. You may wish to consider using a parameter for the formatting.
How can I display data type TIME in SQL as 09:00 or 09:00AM instead of 09:00:00.000000
For instance, I have a column start_time and its type is TIME
When I insert data in it, INSERT INTO Time(start_time) VALUES('09:00:00')
It displays it as: 09:00:00.0000000
You need to format dates as per your requirement.
have a look at
http://www.sql-server-helper.com/sql-server-2008/sql-server-2008-date-format.aspx
or
http://www.w3schools.com/sql/func_convert.asp
sample
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), SYSDATETIME(), 101) AS [MM/DD/YYYY]
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), SYSDATETIME(), 103) AS [DD/MM/YYYY]
..........
You need to take a look at the Format function in T-SQL. This will allow you to format date and time values (and another values) any way you want to. The link I provided is for SQL 2014. Format was added in version 2012. You have your question tagged as 2008, so I'm not sure this answer will apply to you. If not, take a look at Cast and/or Convert here.
By the way, you may not know this but how you enter a date/time value into SQL Server has no relationship to how it is displayed. And, generally, the displaying of date and time values is done in some UI tier of an app, and not at the SQL Sever level, even though T-SQL provides methods for formatting dates and times.
I am using SQL server 2008 R2. I know I can use CONVERT with different format code as the third parameter to do the conversion to DATETIME first and CONVERT again to VARCHAR with another format code to change the display format.
The real problem now is I have mixed raw data in a single column. So my question is how do you write a single SELECT statement to display from mixed YYYY/MM/DD, DD/MM/YYYY all to DD/MM/YYYY?
I tried to use ISDATE() but it think 31/01/2013 is not a date while 01/01/2013 is a date. Now I could only think of to see if the YYYY is on the left or on the right to determine the correct input format, but I dont know how to write it out in a single SELECT statement.
Any procedure to change the format first then do a simple SELECT is not an option. I am not allowed to change the source.
Thank you
Why not just use string manipulations? Something like:
select (case when substring(d, 5, 1) = '/' -- YYYY/MM/DD
then right(d, 2)+'/'+substring(6, 2)+'/'+left(d, 4)
else d
end)
By the way, if you are choosing formats for dates when represented as strings, I highly recommend YYYY-MM-DD (or YYYY/MM/DD) because comparison operators work on them.
If you are sure that only those 2 formats (yyyy/mm/dd and dd/mm/yyyy) exist in the data, then you could probably get away with a CASE statement along the lines of:
CASE
WHEN (SUBSTRING(dateColumn, 5, 1) = '/') THEN CONVERT(datetime, dateColumn, 111)
ELSE CONVERT(datetime, dateColumn, 103)
END
I've got a query that get's a date of a field in a program. This date has to be modified with 10 years.
The query I made is
SELECT DATEADD(yy, +10, '"+thisfield.value+"')
where '"+thisfield.value+"' is coming from the program and is filled in like 01-08-2012.
The result of the query is 2022-07-31 00:00:00.000. The problem I have is that I just need 2022-08-01 but in the format of 01-08-2022 so that I can automatically fill an other field with this result.
In SQL Server 2005 the date function doesn't work only the datetime function and I just don't need that.
I hope this is clear (first time i post something). Can anyone help me?
You can either truncate the result, or cast it to DATE
CAST(DATEADD(yy, +10, '"+thisfield.value+"') AS DATE)"
CONVERT(VARCHAR, DATEADD(yy, +10, '"+thisfield.value+"'), 101)"
CONVERT using style 101 is in the format mm/dd/yyyy, which happens to be the format you want. Keep in mind that you can format the result however you want in your application for display purposes which is better than returning strings from SQL Server.
Also note that you should look into parameterized queries and/or stored procedures.
my datetime field looks like this:
2011-02-07 06:51:32.000 (yyyy-mm-dd)
User input is in this format:
02-07-2011 (only the date)
This should be converted to:
02-07-2011 00:00:00.000
i tried CONVERT:
CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),myDateTimeField,113)
but this only works with date values not with datetime.
please help!
I used the following function:
CONVERT(datetime,Cast(myDateInput AS Char (10)), 105)
thanks for all your answers! and my apoligizes for changing my question!
select convert(varchar, myDateTimeField, 105) ...
Source: http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1145/date-and-time-conversions-using-sql-server/ and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa226054(v=sql.80).aspx
Crystal has a function called Date; it takes either YYYY, MM, DD or a datetime as arguments and returns a date.
So I would suggest you make a formula to change the date to a datetime and display it.
date( mytable.mydatetimevar )
You should then be able to format this date as you want with the normal date field formatting options.
An alternative method of doing it is using Crystal's DatePart function to pull out the month, year, day and then restructure as required.
Try this:
select DATEPART(mm, myDateTimeField) + '-' +
DATEPART(dd, myDateTimeField) + '-' +
DATEPART(year, myDateTimeField)
I don't think it's surprising that a DATETIME field carries time information ;)
In fact, you shouldn't alter the field itself, as you would lose the database engine's ability to use date/time related functions with this field.
(the format used is ISO 8601 which helps the engine to easily identify the single parts)
As others said, it's good practice to format the date when you are retrieving it, either in your SELECT statement or in your application. (for more tips regarding this we would indeed need the information what sql server and what appliccation language you are using).
try converting with Style ID - 110
CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),myDateTimeField,110)
Result will be: 02-07-2011