Question

In my SqlServer 2008, I have a table named Table1, with one column named IncDate which is a DateTime.

I need to run a query which returns the total of records by that date. For example, my table has these records:

IncDate
09/09/2012 16:21:51.547
09/09/2012 16:22:11.032
10/09/2012 13:51:33.327

My query needs to output:

Date................Total
09/09/2012...........2 
10/09/2012...........1

Answer 1

You need to CAST() the date as date-only.

SELECT Cast(incdate as date) DateOnly, Count(*) AS Total
FROM yourtable
GROUP BY Cast(incdate as date)

see SQL Fiddle with Demo

If you do not CAST() the date to date-only, then the counts will be off.