Question

I am trying to convert a Datetime from 29/07/2011 00:00:00 this from this format to just 29/07/2011. I do this with a SELECT statement

SELECT CONVERT(nvarchar(10), thisDate, 103) As thisDate ... ORDER BY thisDate

This gives an order of something like this

01/08/2011
02/08/2011
05/06/2011
08/07/2011
14/07/2011
21/06/2010
21/07/2011
23/07/2011
24/07/2011
24/07/2011

However when I use 101 or 102 formatting the results are correct and the dates are ordered correctly.

Answer 1

Your solution doesn’t work because SQL server is trying to sort based on a text string which gets sorted alphabetically, instead of sorting by date.

Try doing this to your query:

SELECT CONVERT(nvarchar(10), thisDate, 103) As newDate, thisDate
FROM YourTable
ORDER BY thisDate ASC