Simplified Date Extraction With CONVERT And CAST Functions
MS SQL Server's CONVERT & CAST functions simplify date & time extraction from datetime values, enhancing data manipulation & analysis.
MS SQL Server offers robust features for structured data management. This article introduces efficient techniques for extracting date and time from the datetime function, focusing on the CONVERT and CAST functions. Simplified Date and Time Extraction Techniques The datetime data type in MS SQL Server holds date and time together. To fetch the current datetime, use SELECT getdate();. For date extraction, CONVERT is handy, e.g., SELECT CONVERT(date, getdate()); extracts just the date. For time, SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR, getdate(), 108); yields the time in hh:mm:ss format. The CAST functi...