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By: SQLserver date manipulation and formatting at SonicChicken blog

SQLserver date manipulation and formatting at SonicChicken blog — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:46:43 +0000

[...] slick features, but one area where they are definitely sucking is date manipulation and formatting. Joseph complained about this a while ago, but it’s time to me to chime in [...]

By: joseph

joseph — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:51:27 +0000

Which is way more verbose than it needs to be. With to_char() it is much easier:

SELECT to_char(date_field, ‘YYYY MON DD’) AS formatted_date

Having to pull out each part of the date and then concatenate them together is just way more verbose than it needs to be.

By: Deane

Deane — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:46:01 +0000

To really format a date up, I’ve found that you often need to break it up using the datepart functions:

SELECT YEAR(date_field) + '/' + MONTH(date_field) + [etc]