Return date only from getdate()

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Return date only from getdate()

Mary Elizabeth Lake

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June 3, 2004 at 10:52 am

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Can someone help me with the syntax for returning the date only from getdate()? In other words, the results I want is
2004-06-03 as opposed to 2004-06-03 09:47:12.097
I've been trying to figure out cast or convert, but I'm not having much success - or perhaps I'm simply going about this the wrong way? Ultimately I really want yesterdays date (getdate()-1) but first I need to get rid of the time...
Thanks from a newbie...
Mary Elizabeth

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Michel Tremblay Newbie Points: 6 More actions · Answer 1

Michel Tremblay

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June 3, 2004 at 11:15 am

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select convert(char(10), getdate()-1,121)

Mary Elizabeth Lake SSC Veteran Points: 286 More actions · Answer 2

Thank you Michel - the select statement you suggested gives me exactly what I asked for - the date. But apparently what I asked for and what I need are not the same thing...

The column in question is a datetime column, but I only care about the date. I am trying to get a count of records that were created on a given date.

If I query like this:

WHERE [datetime] > '2004-06-02' AND [datetime] < '2004-06-03'

I get all the records created on June 2nd (45,037)

But if I query like this:

WHERE [datetime] LIKE convert(char(10), getdate()-1,121)

I get zero records returned. Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Mary Elizabeth Lake SSC Veteran Points: 286 More actions · Answer 3

Hmm. Well the following query works, and returns all the records created yesterday... but I don't know if it's the most efficient way to do it...?

select count(*) from

WHERE [datetime] > convert(char(10), getdate()-1,121)

AND [datetime] < convert(char(10), getdate(),121)

tran008 Ten Centuries Points: 1002 More actions · Answer 4

what is the [datetime] look like? You may want to convert it.

select count(*) from table where convert(char(10),datetime,121)=convert(char(10),getdtate()-1,121)

Chiara SSC Veteran Points: 212 More actions · Answer 5

and what about using....

...WHERE convert(char(10), [datetime],121) LIKE convert(char(10), getdate()-1,121)

instead of...

...WHERE [datetime] LIKE convert(char(10), getdate()-1,121)

where, obviously, [datetime] is your fieldname

Ciao, Chiara

Mary Elizabeth Lake SSC Veteran Points: 286 More actions · Answer 6

For what it's worth, this is what I ended up with:

print 'Total number of incoming SMTP messages for ' + convert(char(10), getdate()-1,121)
select count(*) from
WHERE convert(char(10), [datetime],121) LIKE convert(char(10), getdate()-1,121)

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 7

Alternatively if you want to avoid the conversion to char

select count(*) from

WHERE

cast(floor(cast([datetime] as float)) as datetime) = cast(floor(cast(getdate() as float)) as datetime)

The above is faster than a char comparison, especially if you have large volumes of data

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David Gilkinson Ten Centuries Points: 1334 More actions · Answer 8

Try where datediff(dd, [datetime], '2004-06-02' ) = 0

you can also add

[datetime] >= '2004-06-02'

if you need to pick up an index on datetime

Jeet SSCommitted Points: 1536 More actions · Answer 9

We have found need to do this quite often so we capsulated the logic in a function. This was your code stays nice and concise and the logic can be as complicated as neccessary

Thanks Jeet

KW Valued Member Points: 66 More actions · Answer 10

Assuming you are using a view or procedure, you could also use something like the following:

declare @StartDate datetime

declare @StopDate datetime

set @StartDate = convert(char(10),Getdate()-1, 121)

--returns yesterday's date with time stamp = 00:00:00

set @StopDate = @StartDate + '23:59:59.999'

--returns yesterday's date with time stamp = 23:59:59.999, you can also use convert/getdate as above

--set @StopDate = convert(char(10), Getdate(), 121) OR

--set @StopDate = @StartDate + 1

select Count(*) from Table where DateTimeColumn between @StartDate and @StopDate

ZenDada SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4637 More actions · Answer 11

I don't like to waste an unnecessary function call when I use this so often I don't forget anyway:

SELECT CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(15),GETDATE(),101) AS DATETIME)AS "TruncAndCastDateTime"

GO

SELECT CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(15),GETDATE(),101) AS SMALLDATETIME)AS "TruncAndCastSmallDateTime"

GO

By the way, smalldatetime is half the size of datetime. Saves a lot of space. If you are truncing anyway, you don't need datetime.

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Brian Cidern SSC Veteran Points: 263 More actions · Answer 12

FYI - when I need to counts by date on a DateTime field where the time value is populated, I just zero out the time value with

SELECT CAST(Convert(VarChar(8), GetDate(), 112) AS DateTime) ...

Brian Cidern SSC Veteran Points: 263 More actions · Answer 13

Whoops -- I added my post without going to page two, and now I see that TnJMoseley posted the exact same thing...