QUESTION ABOUT FORMATTING DATE

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QUESTION ABOUT FORMATTING DATE

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Posted - 2002-06-03 : 08:44:35

Andrea writes "I have a field in sql server in format datetime that contains
dates, i want to know how to extract the week of that date

Es. 2002-05-15
week = 20

but if i've a date of this type:
2002-01-03

i want a week of this type

week = 02

i want a '0' before the '2'

thank you"

robvolk
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Posted - 2002-06-03 : 09:04:00

You need to use a few functions, but it's pretty easy:

SELECT Replace(Str(DatePart(wk, dateCol), 2, 0), ' ', '0')
FROM myTable

DatePart gets the week number, the Str function formats the number as 2 digits, with left-padded spaces, and the Replace function changes the spaces to zeros.

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