I have a field in my database table called Month which holds its values as an INT it has the values 1 to 12 - I would like a way to convert 1 to read 1-11-2016 00:00:00 ie as a datetime field, 2 to read 1-12-2016 00:00:00, 3 to read 1-1-2017 00:00:00 - how can I convert a value like this? I am ok with doing case to switch but the convert/cast is confusing me...
You need to define a startdate (either by parameter or in a CTE), then just use dateadd()
#StartDate = '2016-10-01 00:00:00'
select dateadd(mm, t1.month, #StartDate) as NewMonth
from MyTable t1
Another response is
SELECT CONVERT(DATE, '2016-' + CAST(id AS VARCHAR(2)) + '-01') AS myDate
FROM T1
But y prefer JohmHC answer !!
I have a table where the date and time stamp are logged together and I want to only show the date in a 10 character output. Also I want to return as blank some dates in the field that are 01/01/1800.
The current table format is 2013-06-28 00:00:00:000
I just want the date. I was using RTRIM function but it keeps erroring out.
Thanking you in advance
Try this:
SELECT CASE CONVERT(DATE, #MyValue) WHEN '01/01/1800' THEN NULL ELSE CONVERT(DATE, #MyValue) END
Or if you prefer:
DECLARE #DateOnlyValue DATE
SET #DateOnlyValue = CONVERT(DATE, #MyValue)
SELECT CASE #DateOnlyValue WHEN '01/01/1800' THEN NULL ELSE #DateOnlyValue END
The latter is just DRYer.
You can just do:
select (case when datecol > '1800-01-01' then convert(varchar(10), datecol, 121) end)
This will convert the value to a string of the form YYYY-MM-DD.
This uses NULL for "blank". If you want an empty string:
select (case when datecol > '1800-01-01'
then convert(varchar(10), datecol, 121)
else ''
end)
This also assumes that the values with '1800-01-01' don't have a time component. That seems reasonable for a default extreme value.
I have a table with a column "modTime" formatted as datetime.
To fetch dates from this column I use the following line in my Select which returns a date in the format DD MMM YYYY:
CONVERT(VARCHAR(11), G.modTime, 106) AS modTime
Is there a way that I can return the date in a different format (like the following) when it matches the current date and only otherwise use the above format ? This returns the date as Today at hh:mm.
('Today at ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(5), G.modTime, 108)) AS modTime
Both ways work when I use them separately but I couldn't find a way to combine them using CASE etc.
You can try this:
select iif(G.modTime=getdate(),('Today at ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(5), G.modTime, 108)),CONVERT(VARCHAR(11),G.modTime, 106) ) from <table name>
Please note that IIF works only with SQL Server 2012 or later.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-IN/library/hh213574.aspx
For older versions, this post might help you:
SQL Server 2008 IIF statement does not seem enabled
you will not match to getdate() using equals, and you need to set getdate()'s time to midnight
select
case when G.modTime >= dateadd(day, datediff(day,0, getdate() ), 0)
then ('Today at ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(5), G.modTime, 108))
else
CONVERT(VARCHAR(11), G.modTime, 106)
end AS modTime
from G
Above I have used: dateadd(day, datediff(day,0, getdate() )
Instead you could use: cast(getdate() as date)
both, have the effect of giving you "today" at 00:00:00
I want to get only hh:mm from date.
How I can get this?
I have tried this :
CONVERT(VARCHAR(8), getdate(), 108)
Just use the first 5 characters...?
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(5),getdate(),108)
You can easily use Format() function instead of all the casting for sql 2012 and above only
SELECT FORMAT(GETDATE(),'hh:mm')
This is by far the best way to do the required conversion.
Another method using DATEPART built-in function:
SELECT cast(DATEPART(hour, GETDATE()) as varchar) + ':' + cast(DATEPART(minute, GETDATE()) as varchar)
If you want to display 24 hours format use:
SELECT FORMAT(GETDATE(),'HH:mm')
and to display 12 hours format use:
SELECT FORMAT(GETDATE(),'hh:mm')
Following code shows current hour and minutes in 'Hour:Minutes' column for us.
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(5), GETDATE(), 108) +
(CASE WHEN DATEPART(HOUR, GETDATE()) > 12 THEN ' PM'
ELSE ' AM'
END) 'Hour:Minutes'
or
SELECT Format(GETDATE(), 'hh:mm') +
(CASE WHEN DATEPART(HOUR, GETDATE()) > 12 THEN ' PM'
ELSE ' AM'
END) 'Hour:Minutes'
The following works on 2008R2+ to produce 'HH:MM':
select
case
when len(replace(replace(replace(right(cast(getdate() as varchar),7),'AM',''),'PM',''),' ','')) = 4
then '0'+ replace(replace(replace(right(cast(getdate() as varchar),7),'AM',''),'PM',''),' ','')
else replace(replace(replace(right(cast(getdate() as varchar),7),'AM',''),'PM',''),' ','') end as [Time]
You can cast datetime to time
select CAST(GETDATE() as time)
If you want a hh:mm format
select cast(CAST(GETDATE() as time) as varchar(5))
Here is syntax for showing hours and minutes for a field coming out of a SELECT statement. In this example, the SQL field is named "UpdatedOnAt" and is a DateTime. Tested with MS SQL 2014.
SELECT Format(UpdatedOnAt ,'hh:mm') as UpdatedOnAt from MyTable
I like the format that shows the day of the week as a 3-letter abbreviation, and includes the seconds:
SELECT Format(UpdatedOnAt ,'ddd hh:mm:ss') as UpdatedOnAt from MyTable
The "as UpdatedOnAt" suffix is optional. It gives you a column heading equal tot he field you were selecting to begin with.
TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'HH')
I used this to get the current hour in apex PL/SQL
In an extract I am dealing with, I have 2 datetime columns. One column stores the dates and another the times as shown.
How can I query the table to combine these two fields into 1 column of type datetime?
Dates
2009-03-12 00:00:00.000
2009-03-26 00:00:00.000
2009-03-26 00:00:00.000
Times
1899-12-30 12:30:00.000
1899-12-30 10:00:00.000
1899-12-30 10:00:00.000
You can simply add the two.
if the Time part of your Date column is always zero
and the Date part of your Time column is also always zero (base date: January 1, 1900)
Adding them returns the correct result.
SELECT Combined = MyDate + MyTime FROM MyTable
Rationale (kudos to ErikE/dnolan)
It works like this due to the way the date is stored as two 4-byte
Integers with the left 4-bytes being the date and the right
4-bytes being the time. Its like doing $0001 0000 + $0000 0001 =
$0001 0001
Edit regarding new SQL Server 2008 types
Date and Time are types introduced in SQL Server 2008. If you insist on adding, you can use Combined = CAST(MyDate AS DATETIME) + CAST(MyTime AS DATETIME)
Edit2 regarding loss of precision in SQL Server 2008 and up (kudos to Martin Smith)
Have a look at How to combine date and time to datetime2 in SQL Server? to prevent loss of precision using SQL Server 2008 and up.
If the time element of your date column and the date element of your time column are both zero then Lieven's answer is what you need. If you can't guarantee that will always be the case then it becomes slightly more complicated:
SELECT DATEADD(day, 0, DATEDIFF(day, 0, your_date_column)) +
DATEADD(day, 0 - DATEDIFF(day, 0, your_time_column), your_time_column)
FROM your_table
This is an alternative solution without any char conversions:
DATEADD(ms, DATEDIFF(ms, '00:00:00', [Time]), CONVERT(DATETIME, [Date]))
You will only get milliseconds accuracy this way, but that would normally be OK. I have tested this in SQL Server 2008.
This worked for me
CAST(Tbl.date as DATETIME) + CAST(Tbl.TimeFrom AS TIME)
(on SQL 2008 R2)
If you're not using SQL Server 2008 (i.e. you only have a DateTime data type), you can use the following (admittedly rough and ready) TSQL to achieve what you want:
DECLARE #DateOnly AS datetime
DECLARE #TimeOnly AS datetime
SET #DateOnly = '07 aug 2009 00:00:00'
SET #TimeOnly = '01 jan 1899 10:11:23'
-- Gives Date Only.
SELECT DATEADD(dd, 0, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, #DateOnly))
-- Gives Time Only.
SELECT DATEADD(Day, -DATEDIFF(Day, 0, #TimeOnly), #TimeOnly)
-- Concatenates Date and Time parts.
SELECT
CAST(
DATEADD(dd, 0, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, #DateOnly)) + ' ' +
DATEADD(Day, -DATEDIFF(Day, 0, #TimeOnly), #TimeOnly)
as datetime)
It's rough and ready, but it works!
If both of your fields are datetime then simply adding those will work.
eg:
Declare #d datetime, #t datetime
set #d = '2009-03-12 00:00:00.000';
set #t = '1899-12-30 12:30:00.000';
select #d + #t
If you used Date & Time datatype then just cast the time to datetime
eg:
Declare #d date, #t time
set #d = '2009-03-12';
set #t = '12:30:00.000';
select #d + cast(#t as datetime)
This was my solution which ignores the date value of the time column
CAST(Tbl.date as DATETIME) + CAST(CAST(Tbl.TimeFrom AS TIME) as DATETIME)
Hope this helps others
Convert the first date stored in a datetime field to a string, then convert the time stored in a datetime field to string, append the two and convert back to a datetime field all using known conversion formats.
Convert(datetime, Convert(char(10), MYDATETIMEFIELD, 103) + ' ' + Convert(char(8), MYTIMEFIELD, 108), 103)
Convert both field into DATETIME :
SELECT CAST(#DateField as DATETIME) + CAST(#TimeField AS DATETIME)
and if you're using Getdate() use this first:
DECLARE #FechaActual DATETIME = CONVERT(DATE, GETDATE());
SELECT CAST(#FechaActual as DATETIME) + CAST(#HoraInicioTurno AS DATETIME)
I had many errors as stated above so I did it like this
try_parse(concat(convert(date,Arrival_date),' ',arrival_time) as datetime) AS ArrivalDateTime
It worked for me.
Finding this works for two dates where you want time from one and date from the other:
declare #Time as datetime = '2021-11-19 12:34'
declare #Date as datetime = '2021-10-10'
SELECT #time + datediff(day, #Time, #Date)
DECLARE #Dates table ([Date] datetime);
DECLARE #Times table ([Time] datetime);
INSERT INTO #Dates VALUES('2009-03-12 00:00:00.000');
INSERT INTO #Dates VALUES('2009-03-26 00:00:00.000');
INSERT INTO #Dates VALUES('2009-03-30 00:00:00.000');
INSERT INTO #Times VALUES('1899-12-30 12:30:00.000');
INSERT INTO #Times VALUES('1899-12-30 10:00:00.000');
INSERT INTO #Times VALUES('1899-12-30 10:00:00.000');
WITH Dates (ID, [Date])
AS (
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY [Date]), [Date] FROM #Dates
), Times (ID, [Time])
AS (
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY [Time]), [Time] FROM #Times
)
SELECT Dates.[Date] + Times.[Time] FROM Dates
JOIN Times ON Times.ID = Dates.ID
Prints:
2009-03-12 10:00:00.000
2009-03-26 10:00:00.000
2009-03-30 12:30:00.000
To combine date from a datetime column and time from another datetime column this is the best fastest solution for you:
select cast(cast(DateColumn as date) as datetime) + cast(TimeColumn as datetime) from YourTable
SELECT CAST(CAST(#DateField As Date) As DateTime) + CAST(CAST(#TimeField As Time) As DateTime)
Another way is to use CONCATand CAST, be aware, that you need to use DATETIME2(x) to make it work. You can set x to anything between 0-7 7 meaning no precision loss.
DECLARE #date date = '2018-03-12'
DECLARE #time time = '07:00:00.0000000'
SELECT CAST(CONCAT(#date, ' ', #time) AS DATETIME2(7))
Returns 2018-03-12 07:00:00.0000000
Tested on SQL Server 14
simply concatenate both , but cast them first as below
select cast(concat(Cast(DateField as varchar), ' ', Cast(TimeField as varchar)) as datetime) as DateWithTime from TableName;
select s.SalesID from SalesTbl s
where cast(cast(s.SaleDate as date) as datetime) + cast(cast(s.SaleCreatedDate as time) as datetime) between #FromDate and #ToDate
The existing answers do not address the datetime2 datatype so I will add mine:
Assuming that you want to add a time value to a datetime2 value where:
The datetime2 value could contain non-zero time component and/or fractional seconds
The time value could contain the value 23:59:59.9999999 which is 86,399.9999999 seconds, 86,399,999,999.9 microseconds or 86,399,999,999,900 nanoseconds¹
Due to the limitations of dateadd function¹ you must add them in two steps:
Convert the time value to seconds and use dateadd(second, ...)
Extract the nanoseconds from the time value and use dateadd(nanosecond, ...) to add them to the date calculated above
declare #dv datetime2 = '2000-01-01 12:34:56.7890123';
declare #tv time = '23:59:59.9999999';
select dateadd(
nanosecond,
datepart(nanosecond, #tv),
dateadd(
second,
datepart(hour, #tv) * 60 * 60 + datepart(minute, #tv) * 60 + datepart(second, #tv),
#dv
)
);
-- 2000-01-02 12:34:56.7890122
¹ Nanosecond values might not fit in int datatype which dateadd function expects.
SELECT CAST(your_date_column AS date) + CAST(your_time_column AS datetime) FROM your_table
Works like a charm
I ran into similar situation where I had to merge Date and Time fields to DateTime field. None of the above mentioned solution work, specially adding two fields as the data type for addition of these 2 fields is not same.
I created below solution, where I added hour and then minute part to the date. This worked beautifully for me. Please check it out and do let me know if you get into any issues.
;with tbl
as
(
select StatusTime = '12/30/1899 5:17:00 PM', StatusDate = '7/24/2019 12:00:00 AM'
)
select DATEADD(MI, DATEPART(MINUTE,CAST(tbl.StatusTime AS TIME)),DATEADD(HH, DATEPART(HOUR,CAST(tbl.StatusTime AS TIME)), CAST(tbl.StatusDate as DATETIME)))
from tbl
Result: 2019-07-24 17:17:00.000