Question

i’ve created a view and need to convert a datetime to following format:

2011 06   (year, empty-space, two digit numeric month)

What’s the best way to format it?

Here is the datetime(in a subquery in the view, “rounded” to month):

DATEADD(month, DATEDIFF(month, 0,Claim_Submitted_Date), 0) AS Year_Month_Submit

This gives me year,month and day(of course 01 because datetime was rounded to first day of month):

CONVERT(varchar,Year_Month_Submit,112)as Year_Month_Submit

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

select stuff(convert(varchar(6), Claim_Submitted_Date, 112), 5,0,' ')

Answer to Tim Schmelter :

You can compare the methods like this:

declare @i int = 0
declare @dummy varchar(20)
while @i < 1000000
begin
--set @dummy = stuff(convert(varchar(6), getdate() + @i / 1000, 112), 5,0,' ') 
set @dummy = REPLACE(CONVERT(VARCHAR(7), getdate() + @i / 1000, 121), '-', ' ') 
set @i = @i + 1
end

On my server, my version takes 1 second and the other version takes 3 seconds