Question

How to get the formatted date in SQL Server CE?

I have a column on a table that contains Date, but the column type is nvarchar

ID     Date
----------------------
1      05/08/2012
2      10/08/2012
3      05/10/2012

The date format is MM/dd/yyyy, but it is in nvarchar.

Also, I want to have a WHERE clause to select the ID on a specific date. How can I do that? This is for SQL Server CE. Thank you very much.

Answer 1

you need to cover it use convert or cast function …

cast(datecolumn as DateTime)

or

 CONVERT(datetime,datecolumn,101)