Question

Ok – I’ve asked a few people and there has got to be an easy way to do this….

declare @Date date
declare @Time time 
declare @datetime datetime

select @Date = convert(Date,GetDate()) 
select @Time = convert(Time,GetDate())

select @Date, @Time, @Date + @Time (+ operator fails!)

Do I really have to:
1) convert to a string, then convert to datetime field?
2) use DateAdd and DatePart to add hours first then minutes, then seconds…..

Answer 1

@Date + cast(@Time as datetime)

In SQL Server 2012 and I assume SQL Server 2014 you neeed to cast both the date and the time variable to datetime.

cast(@Date as datetime) + cast(@Time as datetime)