Question

hey guys,
i want to convert datetime from string, i have string which contains ‘GETDATE’ now i want to convert the same in datetime, the string in sql server is been defined as varchar(max)

Please reply how can i type cast the GETDATE() function from string to datetieme.

Regards
Abbas Electricwala

Answer 1

I guess that you mean that you have a string that contains the text GetDate() like this.

declare @S varchar(50)
set @S = 'getdate()'

And you want to turn that into a date variable executing getdate().

You could do this since you know what what getdate() means.

declare @S varchar(50)
set @S = 'getdate()'

declare @D datetime

set @D = (select
            case @S when 'getdate()'
              then getdate()
              else null
            end)

Does not really make sense, there probably is more to this than you are telling.