Remove DATE ONLY from datetime column

• DaveDB

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  December 13, 2013 at 9:17 am

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  Hello,

  I need to remove DATE from a date time column in SQL 2005? All I keep finding on Google is how to remove the DATE, which I already know how to do, so how do I just display the time?

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Dave

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  December 13, 2013 at 9:20 am

  #1673313

  DaveDB (12/13/2013)

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  Hello,

  I need to remove DATE from a date time column in SQL 2005? All I keep finding on Google is how to remove the DATE, which I already know how to do, so how do I just display the time?

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Dave

  Honestly any and all formatted should be done in the front end. However, to do this in sql you can use CONVERT.

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx

  If you don't find a format you like you may have to use DATEPART to get the pieces you want in the format you want.

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• Lowell

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  December 13, 2013 at 9:21 am

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  Dave i think the easiest is cast your datetime as TIME datatype, but here's a quick example of the three i could think of:

  /*

  create_date TheTime CharTime108 CharTime114

  ----------------------- ---------------- ------------------------------ ------------------------------

  2010-03-29 08:55:29.650 08:55:29.6500000 08:55:29 08:55:29:650

  2005-10-14 01:36:15.910 01:36:15.9100000 01:36:15 01:36:15:910

  */

  with mycte

  AS

  (

  select top 10 create_date from sys.objects

  )

  select create_date,

  convert(time,create_date) as TheTime,

  CONVERT(varchar,create_date,108) As CharTime108,

  CONVERT(varchar,create_date,114) As CharTime114

  from Mycte

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• Lowell

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  December 13, 2013 at 9:23 am

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  didn't notice this was for SQL2005, so the TIME datatype is out, but the other two converts i posted will work.

  Lowell

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• Elliott Whitlow

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  December 13, 2013 at 9:29 am

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  Keep in mind there is ALWAYS a date in the datetime datatype, you can't get rid of it, you can chose to not display it but it is and always will be there.

  CEWII

• DaveDB

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  December 13, 2013 at 11:18 am

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  Thanks Lowel (and everyone else who responded), very helpful.

  Is there a way I can display this time in USD format?

• Sean Lange

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  December 13, 2013 at 12:28 pm

  #1673380

  DaveDB (12/13/2013)

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  Thanks Lowel (and everyone else who responded), very helpful.

  Is there a way I can display this time in USD format?

  As in a a dollar sign and 2 decimal places? 😀

  What is the format you are looking for? We can help you find a way to do it.

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  December 13, 2013 at 12:49 pm

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  LOL, sorry, I meant 12 hour clock instead of a 24 hour clock.

  Thanks

• Luis Cazares

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  December 13, 2013 at 12:54 pm

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  You just have to play with format codes 🙂

  SELECT TOP 100

  SUBSTRING( CONVERT(varchar,create_date,109), 13, 14) As CharTime

  FROM sys.objects

  REFERENCE: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx

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• Lowell

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  December 13, 2013 at 12:57 pm

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  assuming you want AM/PM? here's a couple more examples; one keeps the milliseconds, the other is stuffed to remove the milliseconds to leave seconds +am/pm:

  select right(convert(varchar,getdate(),131),14),

  STUFF(right(convert(varchar,getdate(),131),14),9,4,'')

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  January 16, 2019 at 7:30 pm

  #2019176

  SELECT CONVERT(DATE, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)
  declare @time as time
  set @time = CONVERT(Time, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)
  SELECT @time

  Smile Please

• Lynn Pettis

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  January 16, 2019 at 9:22 pm

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  sqlservercentral 98941 - Wednesday, January 16, 2019 7:30 PM

  SELECT CONVERT(DATE, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)
  declare @time as time
  set @time = CONVERT(Time, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)
  SELECT @time

  Realize that this is a 6 year old thread and the version of SQL Server is SQL Server 2005.  The DATE and TIME data types are not available.

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  January 18, 2019 at 1:49 am

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  DaveDB - Friday, December 13, 2013 9:17 AM

  Hello,I need to remove DATE from a date time column in SQL 2005? All I keep finding on Google is how to remove the DATE, which I already know how to do, so how do I just display the time?Any help would be appreciated.Dave

  declare @now datetime
set @now = getdate()
select dateadd(d,-datediff(d,0,@now),@now) as TimeOnly,
    right(convert(varchar, dateadd(d,-datediff(d,0,@now),@now),22),11) as TimeOnly_US12h

• Lempster

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  January 18, 2019 at 2:26 am

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  You'll need to use the DATEPART function and concatenate the hour, minutes and seconds, like this:

  
declare @now datetime
set @now = getdate()
select CAST(datepart(hh,dateadd(d,-datediff(d,0,@now),@now)) as varchar(2)) + ':' + CAST(datepart(mi,dateadd(d,-datediff(d,0,@now),@now)) as varchar(2))
+ ':' + CAST(datepart(ss,dateadd(d,-datediff(d,0,@now),@now)) as varchar(2))
as TimeOnly

  Edit: In your case, the @now variable would be replaced by whatever column contains the date you want to use.
  Probably others ways to do it, but the above works.

  Lempster

• Lynn Pettis

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  January 18, 2019 at 9:38 am

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  Lempster - Friday, January 18, 2019 2:26 AM

  You'll need to use the DATEPART function and concatenate the hour, minutes and seconds, like this:

  
declare @now datetime
set @now = getdate()
select CAST(datepart(hh,dateadd(d,-datediff(d,0,@now),@now)) as varchar(2)) + ':' + CAST(datepart(mi,dateadd(d,-datediff(d,0,@now),@now)) as varchar(2))
+ ':' + CAST(datepart(ss,dateadd(d,-datediff(d,0,@now),@now)) as varchar(2))
as TimeOnly

  Edit: In your case, the @now variable would be replaced by whatever column contains the date you want to use.
  Probably others ways to do it, but the above works.

  Lempster

  Really?  What about this:
  SELECT CONVERT(varchar(10),GETDATE(),108);