In microsoft sql server 2012 and later, the function format has been introduced which is much easier to use to format dates I'm trying to create a cursor or even a update with no success This tutorial shows different examples of using this new function to format dates.
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In sql server, we have several options when it comes to formatting a date or datetime value as mmddyyyy
The two most common functions for formatting dates like this are convert() and format().
We will write different date format queries for this demonstration using convert and format functions The convert function provides different styles to format date and time Odbc is canonical with milliseconds This is the default for time, date, datetime2, and datetimeoffset.
Actually, it's milliseconds after 1 jan 1970 and the following will easily do the initial conversion thanks to the inherent temporal math capabilities of the datetime datatype. First, you should probably use sysdatetime() if you're looking for more precision To format your data with milliseconds, try convert(varchar, sysdatetime(), 121) For other formats, check out the msdn page on cast and convert
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When you write queries or compose reports from information that is stored in the configuration manager site database, you can express the date and time in any valid sql format. Check out the table below for all of the different format options for dates and times. Based on a select, i can return x rows like this We have all milliseconds with 0
Is there a way to add 1 by 1 milliseconds, so the select would look like this
