Question

I have my date values in postdate column in articles table in sql database table. It stores all date as well as time. I would like to get the date part only. i.e from 2010/07/01 12:45:12 i would likfe to get 2010/07/01
in my view

Answer 1

With SQL Server 2008, you can cast the value as DATE. With previous versions, you can use a trick over DATEADD:

DECLARE @d DATETIME;

SELECT @d = '2010-07-22 12:45:22';

-- all versions of sql server
SELECT DATEADD(DAY, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, @d), 0);
-- sql server 2008
SELECT CAST(@d AS DATE);

Greets
Flo