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Asked: 2026-05-26T11:54:18+00:00

Lets say I have a datetime from my database, such as: 2011-10-24 00:00:00.000 .

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Lets say I have a datetime from my database, such as: 2011-10-24 00:00:00.000. I would like to convert this into 24/10/2011, but I can’t find the native SQL Server way to do this, and I’d rather no do this in the code after I run my query.

I’ve tried doing something as follows (as per the manual)

select CONVERT(datetime, '2011-10-24 00:00:00.000', 103);

But that doesn’t work out, my result is:

Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.

I suspect this might be due to the decimal precision, or the time part of this, but I’m not sure how to go about this without resulting to some string-hacking-regex-replace nonsense (and I’d rather no do that, I might as well end up doing the conversion after the query if I do that).

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  1. Editorial Team

    If I read the manual correctly, you should be using stlye 120 “ODBC canonical” – no??

    Try:

    select CONVERT(datetime, '2011-10-24 00:00:00.000', 120);

    Works on my machine 🙂 This gives you a SQL Server DATETIME to work with.

    If you want to convert that further into 24/10/2011, use a second CONVERT to convert into a VARCHAR string:

    select CONVERT(VARCHAR(50), CONVERT(datetime, '2011-10-24 00:00:00.000', 120), 103)

    That gives me:

    24/10/2011
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