Question

I have 2 questions, I have a text file with all my data, in the text file I have for example Sply_DT and Imprt_DT.

For Sply_Dt I have to create getdate() and I have it formatted as 2012-10-25 12:04:16.09900000 using (DT_DBTIMESTAMP)(DT_DBDATE)GETDATE() but I want it formatted as MM-DD-YY.

And for Impt_DT, it’s in the 5/16/2011 format in dataviewer but when I placed it into a table it looks like 2011-05-16 00:00:00.000 and I want it in MM-DD-YY format.

Answer 1

I think you have some confusion about the datetime data type. It does not care whether your locale is US (mm/dd/yyyy), Japan (yy/mm/dd) or the UK (dd/mm/yyyy), it will always be stored in the internal format.

If you don’t like the default presentation, you can investigate SET DATEFORMAT and perhaps that makes sense for your query.

You can also apply the appropriate CONVERT format when you are querying the data to make it in your intended format.

DECLARE @datevar datetime = '2012-10-25'
SELECT CONVERT(char(10), @datevar, 10) AS YourFomat, @datevar AS defaultFormat

If I have misunderstood your question, please clarify.