Question

I have a table with a VARCHAR() column with values in this format:

2012-10-05T11:14:00-04:00

I need to put this data into another table where the data type of the field is DATETIME.

How would I go about converting

2012-10-05T11:14:00-04:00

to

2012-10-05 11:14:00

?

I tried:

CAST(LEFT(REPLACE(fieldtimestamp, 'T', ' '), 19) AS DATETIME)

But it keeps giving me the error:

Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.

Answer 1

select CAST(LEFT(REPLACE('2012-10-05T11:14:00-04:00', 'T', ' '), 19) AS DATETIME)

works for me giving

2012-10-05 11:14:00.000

under sql server 2012