Question

I am moving data from different source types like Oracle, MySQL, Access, Sharepoint etc to SQL.

A SQL script is generated in c# like this:

with cte (ID, changedate, SupplierID) 
as (
SELECT 1720,  '1997-12-17 12:00:00 AM',  763
UNION ALL
SELECT 1721,  '1900-01-01 12:00:00 AM',  114)
 select * into components8_2_2011_3  from cte

The datatime fields is created as varchar which is wrong.

In C# I can see that the column type is datetime, but MSSQL does not recognize the string as datetime.

How would I go about getting the above script to create a datetime field WITHOUT adding a CAST statement to the changeDate field?

Answer 1

How about using a “guide row”

with cte (ID, changedate, SupplierID) as (
   --type but no data
   select 0, getdate(), 0 where 0=1 union 

   SELECT 1720,  '1997-12-17 12:00:00 AM',  763
   UNION ALL
   SELECT 1721,  '1900-01-01 12:00:00 AM',  114
)
select * into components8_2_2011_3  from cte