Date Format (mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm), no seconds or milliseconds

• Rohit Machhi

  Newbie

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  May 2, 2019 at 11:52 am

  #3625559

  select FORMAT(Convert(datetime,GETDATE (),103),'MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm')

• Jeff Moden

  SSC Guru

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  May 2, 2019 at 12:51 pm

  #3626819

  Rohit Machhi wrote:

  select FORMAT(Convert(datetime,GETDATE (),103),'MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm')

   

  While that's incredibly simple, as it was designed to be, FORMAT has been tested and documented as being 44 times slower than even poor renditions.  Until MS fixes the performance issues with FORMAT (and they won't), don't use FORMAT.

  --Jeff Moden

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  First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
  ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

  Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
  

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• Jason A. Long

  SSC-Insane

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  May 2, 2019 at 5:45 pm

  #3630907

  Because BOL doesn't list/describe all of the available CONVERT styles...

  DECLARE @n INT = 0, @v nvarchar(100);
  WHILE @n < 10000
  BEGIN
  BEGIN TRY 
  SELECT @v = CONCAT(@n, N' ', CONVERT(NVARCHAR(50), GETDATE(), @n));
  RAISERROR(@v, 0, 1);
  SET @n += 1;
  END TRY
  BEGIN CATCH
  SET @n += 1;
  END CATCH;
  END;