Converting string to datetime

Posted by Zafar Iqbal on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 00:32

Here how you can convert string date to a datetime value:

DECLARE @DateString char(14)SET @DateString = '20060703074815'SELECT CAST(SUBSTRING(@DateString, 1, 4) + '-' +SUBSTRING(@DateString, 5, 2) + '-' +SUBSTRING(@DateString, 7, 2) + 'T' +SUBSTRING(@DateString, 9, 2) + ':' +SUBSTRING(@DateString, 11, 2) + ':' +SUBSTRING(@DateString, 13, 2) AS datetime)

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