Question

I have the following query that retrieves what I need from the database:

SELECT     
   dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.ID, dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.Title, 
   dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.Description, dbo.employee.Name, 
   dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.Username, dbo.Divisions.DivisionShortcut, 
   dbo.SafetySuggestionsType.Type, 
   ISNULL(dbo.SafetySuggestionsStatus.Status, '-') AS Status, 
   dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.DateSubmitted
FROM 
   dbo.employee 
INNER JOIN
   dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog ON dbo.employee.Username = dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.Username 
INNER JOIN
   dbo.Divisions ON dbo.employee.DivisionCode = dbo.Divisions.SapCode 
INNER JOIN
   dbo.SafetySuggestionsType ON dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.TypeID = dbo.SafetySuggestionsType.ID 
LEFT OUTER JOIN
   dbo.SafetySuggestionsStatus ON dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.StatusID = dbo.SafetySuggestionsStatus.ID
ORDER BY 
   dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.DateSubmitted DESC

Instead of showing the date under DateSubmitted column as (6/23/2012 7:15:00 AM), I want to display it as (Jun-2012).

How to do that?

Answer 1

You can have above format using below example query :

  SELECT REPLACE(RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR(11), CAST('6/23/2012 7:15:00 AM' AS DATETIME), 106), 8), ' ', '-') AS [Mon-YYYY]

In your query, you can try like this :

SELECT     dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.ID, dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.Title, dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.Description, dbo.employee.Name, 
                      dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.Username, dbo.Divisions.DivisionShortcut, dbo.SafetySuggestionsType.Type, ISNULL(dbo.SafetySuggestionsStatus.Status, '-') AS Status, 
                      REPLACE(RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR(11),dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.DateSubmitted, 106), 8), ' ', '-') AS [Mon-YYYY]
FROM         dbo.employee INNER JOIN
                      dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog ON dbo.employee.Username = dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.Username INNER JOIN
                      dbo.Divisions ON dbo.employee.DivisionCode = dbo.Divisions.SapCode INNER JOIN
                      dbo.SafetySuggestionsType ON dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.TypeID = dbo.SafetySuggestionsType.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
                      dbo.SafetySuggestionsStatus ON dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.StatusID = dbo.SafetySuggestionsStatus.ID
ORDER BY dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.DateSubmitted DESC

Be sure,dbo.SafetySuggestionsLog.DateSubmitted column should be datetime type, otherwise cast it to datetime type