SQL Server Date-time-to-string

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One, SQL Server date-time functions
Date and time functions in SQL Server
1. Current system date, time
Select GETDATE ()

2. DateAdd returns a new datetime value based on adding a period of time to the specified date
Example: Add 2 days to the date
Select DATEADD (day,2, ' 2004-10-15 ')--return: 2004-10-17 00:00:00.000

3. DateDiff returns the number of date and time boundaries across two specified dates.
Select DateDiff (Day, ' 2004-09-01 ', ' 2004-09-18 ')--return: 17

4. DatePart returns an integer representing the specified date portion of the specified date.
Select DATEPART (Month, ' 2004-10-15 ')--return 10

5. Datename returns a string representing the specified date part of the specified date
Select Datename (Weekday, ' 2004-10-15 ')--return: Friday

6. Day (), month (), year ()--can be compared with datepart

Select Current date =convert (varchar), GETDATE (), 120)
, Current time =convert (varchar (8), GETDATE (), 114)

Select Datename (DW, ' 2004-10-15 ')

Select how many weeks of the year =datename (week, ' 2004-10-15 ')
, today is a few weeks =datename (weekday, ' 2004-10-15 ')

Second, date format conversion

Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 0): 2006 10:57am
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 1): 05/16/06
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 2): 06.05.16
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 3): 16/05/06
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 4): 16.05.06
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 5): 16-05-06
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 6): 16 05 06
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 7): 05 16, 06
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 8): 10:57:46
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 9): 2006 10:57:46:827am
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 10): 05-16-06
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 11): 06/05/16
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 12): 060516
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 13): 16 05 2006 10:57:46:937
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 14): 10:57:46:967
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 20): 2006-05-16 10:57:47
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 21): 2006-05-16 10:57:47.157
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (): 05/16/06 10:57:47 AM
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 23): 2006-05-16
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 24): 10:57:47
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 25): 2006-05-16 10:57:47.250
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), (+): 2006 10:57am
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 101): 05/16/2006
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 102): 2006.05.16
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 103): 16/05/2006
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 104): 16.05.2006
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 105): 16-05-2006
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 106): 16 05 2006
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 107): 05 16, 2006
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 108): 10:57:49
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 109): 2006 10:57:49:437am
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), (+): 05-16-2006
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 111): 2006/05/16
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 20060516 ):
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 113): 2006 10:57:49:513
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), (): 10:57:49:547
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), (+): 2006-05-16 10:57:49
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 121): 2006-05-16 10:57:49.700
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), 126): 2006-05-16t10:57:49.827
Select CONVERT (varchar), GETDATE (), ():???? ?????? 1427 10:57:49:907am

First, review the syntax format for convert (): convert (<data_ type>[length], <expression> [, Style])

Second, the emphasis here is to explain the meaning of the style: style is the datatime and smalldatetime data into a string when the choice of the SQL Server system provided by the conversion style number, different style numbers have different output format; typically in a time type ( Datetime,smalldatetime) and the string type (Nchar,nvarchar,char,varchar) are used when converting to each other.

SQL Server Date-time-to-string