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scelamko
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

309 Posts

Posted - 2005-04-01 : 10:40:06
guys

I have date conversion issue here I have datetime datatype field in the following format

'1998-07-01 00:00:00.000'

I want to covert it format '07/01/1998', i have tried using the function

'convert(datetime, columnname, 101)'

but it doesnt seem to work.

Any suggestions and work arounds will be very helpful

Thanks

jparker
Posting Yak Master

118 Posts

Posted - 2005-04-01 : 10:55:05
Are you wanting to do the conversion within the sql statement or within a scripting language such as ASP or PHP?
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rfrancisco
Yak Posting Veteran

95 Posts

Posted - 2005-04-01 : 11:03:43
Try CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), columnname, 101).
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