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Substring issue

  • December 8, 2011 at 8:00 am

    #391072

    Hi, I want to return only the hour of a time ie 17:00 should return 17

    The code below selects the time from a date and then rounds up or down to the nearest hour.

    SELECT CAST(DATEADD(hour,DATEDIFF(hour,0,DATEADD(minute,30,GETDATE())),0) AS TIME(0))

    I tried to add the SUBSTRING function to this but to no avail.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks!!

  • December 8, 2011 at 8:05 am

    #1418696

    convert the date right away to time, and then you are working with hours from 0 to 23:59:59;

    so when you round the TIMe, it's between 0 and 23:

    --returns 10 AS INTEGER

    SELECT DATEDIFF(hour,0,DATEADD(minute,30,convert(time,GETDATE())))

    Lowell

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  • December 8, 2011 at 8:08 am

    #1418697

    Perfect! Thank-you for your prompt response 🙂

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