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getDate with seconds

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nic
Posting Yak Master

209 Posts

Posted - 2002-01-02 : 14:23:54

Hi,
I'm writing a sp that builds a sql statement using the getdate function, but it only returns the date and time to the minute. How can you get the seconds to be included? I also tried current_timestamp but it returned the same value.

Simple example:
CREATE PROCEDURE testSP
AS
print 'select * from table where date = ' + cast(current_timestamp As varchar)
GO

I tried char etc but it never returns the seconds.

Thanks in advance

Nic

Rita Bhatnagar
Posting Yak Master

172 Posts

Posted - 2002-01-02 : 14:28:37

look at convert function in bol.

AjarnMark
SQL Slashing Gunting Master

3246 Posts

Posted - 2002-01-03 : 16:50:10

Why are you CASTing a datetime value as varchar? Is your date field in your table not of datetime data type? If you select getdate() or current_timestamp without casting it as a varchar you will get seconds and 3/1000 of seconds. Try your statement without the CAST.

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Rafiq
Starting Member

25 Posts

Posted - 2002-01-04 : 03:35:50

Hi,

It's not a big problem. Try to use GetDate(). It will solve your problem.

Regards,

Rafi

ymurali
Starting Member

2 Posts

Posted - 2002-01-04 : 06:02:14

quote:

Hi,
I'm writing a sp that builds a sql statement using the getdate function, but it only returns the date and time to the minute. How can you get the seconds to be included? I also tried current_timestamp but it returned the same value.

Simple example:
CREATE PROCEDURE testSP
AS
print 'select * from table where date = ' + cast(current_timestamp As varchar)
GO

I tried char etc but it never returns the seconds.

Thanks in advance

Nic

ymurali
Starting Member

2 Posts

Posted - 2002-01-04 : 06:04:00

Hi

u better check the version of sqlserver u r using,if i do a getdate() in sqlserver7.0 the output is 2002-01-04 10:56:35.457
murali

quote:

Hi,
I'm writing a sp that builds a sql statement using the getdate function, but it only returns the date and time to the minute. How can you get the seconds to be included? I also tried current_timestamp but it returned the same value.

Simple example:
CREATE PROCEDURE testSP
AS
print 'select * from table where date = ' + cast(current_timestamp As varchar)
GO

I tried char etc but it never returns the seconds.

Thanks in advance

Nic

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