DateTime format to mmmdd format

• Rob Farley

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  April 25, 2005 at 10:17 pm

  #554741

  Then you've missed a space from what I wrote. Here it is with * instead of space.

  Replace(Replace(Convert(Char(6),@thedate,109),'**','0'),'*','')

  The concept is that you need to find the scenario where there are 2 spaces, and put a leading zero in there. But just remove a single one.

  Rob Farley
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• Jeff Moden

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  April 25, 2005 at 11:02 pm

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  >I cannot get Jeff's solution to work without using GETDATE(). 

  What I wrote was meant to solve the original posting which stated... "I would like to be able to convert SQL server DateTime format to the format mmmdd."

  Things like '20050101' are not SQL DateTime data types... they're text.

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• Michael Du Bois

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  April 26, 2005 at 3:36 am

  #554800

  Thanks Rob

   Select Replace(Replace(Convert(Char(6),@thedate,109),'**','0'),'*','') 

  Works great (FYI I cut and pasted from your original post ) 

   

  Mike