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Today's date as column name

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AndyK
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2 Posts

Posted - 2011-01-13 : 04:56:29

Hi All,
long time lurker, first time poster!

I am trying to add todays date as a column name to a simple select statement.

Any ideas how I go about this?

Many Thanks in advance

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2011-01-13 : 05:14:35

Do this in the application and not in T-SQL.

Tara Kizer
Microsoft MVP for Windows Server System - SQL Server
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/

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Sachin.Nand

2937 Posts

Posted - 2011-01-13 : 05:49:18

I strongly suggest that you follow what Tara said.But just for sake of your knowledge you can do this.


create table #t (dt datetime)
insert #t
select getdate()
declare @col varchar(20)=getdate()
declare @sql nvarchar(100)='select dt as ''' + quotename(@col) + ''' from #t'
exec sp_executesql @sql,N'@col varchar(100)',@col=getdate;

drop table #t

PBUH

AndyK
Starting Member

2 Posts

Posted - 2011-01-13 : 06:01:14

Thank you both for your replies!

Andy

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