Question

The following is a section of my select statement

CAST(Table.field AS datetime) AS newDate

As you would expect, it returns something like the following

1/1/1900  2:45:00 PM

However, I need it to return that same value inside single quotes as seen below. But I am having a really hard time for the syntax of this, with a cast statement, with a column renaming. Hopefully you guys could be of some help?

'1/1/1900  2:45:00 PM'

Answer 1

Cast the value to a varchar and concatenate them:

''''+cast(cast(table.field as date) as varchar(255))+''''

You might want to investigate convert to have better control over the format of the resulting date.

That used the SQL Server method for concatenation. In other databases, you might use || or the function concat.