Question

I created a stored procedure as following,

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[Access_GetDate]
(
    @Name varchar(255)
)
AS
    SELECT TOP(1) Employee.StartDate 
    FROM Employee 
    WHERE Employee.Name = @Name;

its working properly but returning date in this format

2012-10-24 00:00:00.000

However I want it in this format,

2012 10 24

only

Answer 1

You can use the following:

USE [DBNAME]
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[Access_GetDate]
(
    @Name varchar(255)
)
AS

SELECT TOP(1) replace(convert(char(10), Employee.StartDate, 120), '-', ' ') StartDate
FROM Employee 
WHERE Employee.Name = @Name;

See SQL Fiddle with Demo