Question

Hi all i’m trying to parse an xml file in SQl Server 2005. I have a datetime field in the xml which is a string as follows: ‘20110805060028.387’. I want to convert this to a datetime field in sql server, but i’m struggling with the syntax. Is it possible to get dd/mm/yyy hh:mm:ss.ms (ms = micro seconds) from this string?

Answer 1

Its not a supported format so you will need to;

declare @dt varchar(42)= '20110805060028.387'
--convert to '20110805 06:00:28.387'
select cast(stuff(stuff(stuff(@dt, 9, 0, ' '), 12, 0, ':'), 15, 0, ':') as datetime)

>>2011-08-05 06:00:28.387