Question

I have table Proccesses that consist of Date Time Field.

Proccesses ( Id as int , RunDate as DateTime)
I need to run Distinct by RunDate as Time Without seconds

For Example

ID        RunDate 
1         2011-12-13 12:36:26.483
2         2011-12-12 12:37:22.421
3         2011-12-11 12:36:44.421

I need to receive in output

Output
12:01
12:03

In order to retrieve it I using following SQL and it’s working

SELECT DISTINCT DATENAME(hour, RunDateTime) + ':' + 
DATENAME(mi, RunDateTime) AS  d
from Proccesses 

The problem that if minutes is less than 10 for example 8
I receiving single digit “8” , and I want to receive two digit 08

For example I receive 12:8 , and I need to receive 12:08

Answer 1

try

SELECT DISTINCT 
RIGHT ('00' + CAST(DATENAME(hour, RunDateTime) AS VARCHAR(2)), 2) + ':' +
RIGHT ('00' + CAST(DATENAME(mi, RunDateTime) AS VARCHAR(2)), 2)
from Proccesses 

Alternatively you can use CONVERT as suggested by @JoeStefanelli and handle the string result accordingly.