Converting Dates

• clarks

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  February 25, 2011 at 9:41 am

  #234277

  Hi All,

  I have the following date= 2010-01-11 00:00:00.000

  and I need to convert it to this=20100111

  Any suggestions?

• Sean Lange

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  February 25, 2011 at 9:46 am

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  Check out convert here. You can do this pretty painlessly.

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• rgerald 53299

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  March 7, 2011 at 1:14 pm

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  SELECT CONVERT(varchar(10), CAST(LEFT('2011-02-03 00:00:00.000', 10) AS datetime), 112);