Regionaland Language Option settings for SQL Server

• suresh.s-895438

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  February 11, 2009 at 7:36 am

  #197027

  Dear Friends:

  I have a task on SQL Server 2005 that need to get relative Date format for choosing Language in Regional and Language Option on Control panel.

  Ex : Default Language setting is "English (United States").

  So that SQL Query to Get Date has to show " 2/11/2009".

  Similarly if I select English(United Kingdom) in Regional and Language Option on Control panel.

  then SQL Query to Get Date has to show the Date format as "11/02/2009".

  Can any one help on this regard.

  Thanks

• Jack Corbett

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  February 11, 2009 at 8:24 am

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  If you use ISO format yyyymmdd in your queries then it will work with all language settings.

  Check this out:

  SET LANGUAGE us_english

  SELECT

  ISDATE('20091231'),

  ISDATE('12/31/2009'),

  ISDATE('31/12/2009')

  SET LANGUAGE british

  SELECT

  ISDATE('20091231'),

  ISDATE('12/31/2009'),

  ISDATE('31/12/2009')

  SET LANGUAGE ceština

  SELECT

  ISDATE('20091231'),

  ISDATE('12/31/2009'),

  ISDATE('31/12/2009')

  SET LANGUAGE Svenska

  SELECT

  ISDATE('20091231'),

  ISDATE('12/31/2009'),

  ISDATE('31/12/2009')

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