Function to Convert Current Date to SQL Sever Date format.

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Function to Convert Current Date to SQL Sever Date format.

Welsh Corgi

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August 29, 2014 at 6:32 am

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Does anyone have a function to Convert Current Date to SQL Sever Date format?
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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65142 More actions · Answer 1

SYSDATETIME() will give you current date and time

CAST(SYSDATETIME() as date) will give you current date only

What are you referring to with 'Current Date'?

What do you mean by SQL Server Date format?

What sort of 'Convert'?

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Welsh Corgi SSC Guru Points: 116520 More actions · Answer 2

I want to do the Equivalent of the following SQL Select and return the result listed below:

SELECT CONVERT(DATE,GETDATE()) AS CurrentDate;

CurrentDate

2014-08-29

Thank you.

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 3

Welsh Corgi (8/29/2014)
I want to do the Equivalent of the following SQL Select and return the result listed below:
SELECT CONVERT(DATE,GETDATE()) AS CurrentDate;
CurrentDate
2014-08-29
Thank you.

Equivalent in Oracle?

SELECT SYSDATE AS Datetype,

TRUNC(SYSDATE) AS NoTimeDate,

TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'YYYY-MM-DD') AS StringDate

FROM Dual;

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65142 More actions · Answer 4

Your query is returning a date datatype, the gui interface (SSMS) is displaying as characters formatted as to the language of the login.

So

SELECT CONVERT(DATE,GETDATE()) AS CurrentDate;

and

SELECT CONVERT(varchar(10),GETDATE(),120) AS CurrentDate;

Both show 2014-08-29 in SSMS but the first is a date datatype and the second is varchar (string) and will be treated differently depending on what software is used.

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Welsh Corgi SSC Guru Points: 116520 More actions · Answer 5

Luis Cazares (8/29/2014)
Welsh Corgi (8/29/2014)
I want to do the Equivalent of the following SQL Select and return the result listed below:
SELECT CONVERT(DATE,GETDATE()) AS CurrentDate;
CurrentDate
2014-08-29
Thank you.
Equivalent in Oracle?
SELECT SYSDATE AS Datetype,
TRUNC(SYSDATE) AS NoTimeDate,
TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'YYYY-MM-DD') AS StringDate
FROM Dual;

That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

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Welsh Corgi SSC Guru Points: 116520 More actions · Answer 6

David Burrows (8/29/2014)
Your query is returning a date datatype, the gui interface (SSMS) is displaying as characters formatted as to the language of the login.
So
SELECT CONVERT(DATE,GETDATE()) AS CurrentDate;
and
SELECT CONVERT(varchar(10),GETDATE(),120) AS CurrentDate;
Both show 2014-08-29 in SSMS but the first is a date datatype and the second is varchar (string) and will be treated differently depending on what software is used.

Thanks for the tip.

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Welsh Corgi SSC Guru Points: 116520 More actions · Answer 7

My requirements have changed.

What I need to do is have a .NET Script execute a Stored Procedure against an Oracle Table.

It looks for a record with the current Date that indicates an Oracle Job has completed.

It executes every 15 minutes until it finds the record.

I'm leaning in favor of an OpenQuery embedded in a Stored Procedure.

In the stored Procedure I get the current Date and store it in a variable

DECLARE @CurrentDate Date

SET @CurrentDate = CONVERT(DATE, GETDATE());

SELECT @CurrentDate AS CurrentDate

Then I need to convert the date a string that will work with an Oracle Date format. I'm not sure what the syntax would be?

The following works:

SELECT *

FROM OPENQUERY (LS_RDB_DWH, 'SELECT * FROM RDB_DWH.ENTITY_DIMENSION')

My intent is to create dynamic SQL and pass the Oracle Date in the where clause.

I tried querying the table based on the Entry Date using the following:

SELECT *

FROM OPENQUERY (LS_RDB_DWH, 'SELECT * FROM RDB_DWH.ENTITY_DIMENSION WHERE PD_RDB_ENTRY_DATE = '2012-10-31 03:10:37.0053840'')

But I get the following error:

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 2

Incorrect syntax near '2012'.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. 🙂

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65142 More actions · Answer 8

The syntax error is due to insufficient quotes. You have use two single quotes to get one when using them inside OPENQUERY

ie

SELECT *

FROM OPENQUERY (LS_RDB_DWH, 'SELECT * FROM RDB_DWH.ENTITY_DIMENSION WHERE PD_RDB_ENTRY_DATE = ''2012-10-31 03:10:37.0053840''')

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Welsh Corgi SSC Guru Points: 116520 More actions · Answer 9

I got it to work.

Thanks.

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 10

Format the date in SQL Server as a date and use that value in your Oracle query. I cannot remember if Oracle dates will query as SQL Server dates, as it's been way too long since I've worked with Oracle.

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65142 More actions · Answer 11

I do not oracle but after a quick google search, try this

SELECT *

FROM OPENQUERY (LS_RDB_DWH, 'SELECT * FROM RDB_DWH.ENTITY_DIMENSION WHERE PD_RDB_ENTRY_DATE >= TRUNC(SYSDATE)')

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 12

That should certainly work as long as the query pulls for everything today only. If the requirement is to go back in time, then date math in the Oracle query will suffice. If needed, perhaps the SQL Server procedure could accept a parameter to determine today (0) or days backward in time (integer > 0) and then pick an appropriate Oracle SQL statement to execute.

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 13

David Burrows (9/2/2014)
I do not oracle

You're lucky 😀

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Welsh Corgi SSC Guru Points: 116520 More actions · Answer 14

I got the following to work. I tried executing against the table in my original post but it took forever so I cancelled the query.

SELECT CAST(CAE_RDB_ENTRY_DATE as Date), *

FROM OPENQUERY(LS_RDB_DWH, 'SELECT * FROM RDB_DWHY.ASSOCIATE_ENTITY WHERE CAE_RDB_ENTRY_DATE > TO_DATE(''2014-08-08'',''YYYY.MM.DD'') ORDER BY 1')

Thanks.

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