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RockStar

Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:52 AM

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Trying to update a timestamp field with getdate(). Field is Varchar (16) and the time needs to be in the following format : YYYYMMDDhhmmssms

Example: 2008020609435709

Using the code below to get the second, but in desperate need of how to include the milliseconds in this format.

Select convert(varchar(8),getdate(),112) -- YYYYMMDD
+substring(convert(varchar(8),getdate(),108),1,2) --HH
+substring(convert(varchar(8),getdate(),108),4,2) -- mm
+substring(convert(varchar(8),getdate(),108),7,2) --ss

Thanks in Advance for your advice!

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antonio.collins

Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:03 AM

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you can just convert the whole thing and strip out the characters. milliseconds is 3 digits so you'll have to truncate the result from 17 to 16 digits.

select substring( replace(replace( replace(replace( convert(varchar,getdate(),121),' ',''),'-',''),':',''),'.',''), 1, 16 )

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Lynn Pettis

Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:03 AM

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Try this:

select replace(replace(replace(replace(convert(varchar(30), getdate(), 121),'-',''),' ',''),':',''),'.','')

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Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:09 AM

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SELECT LEFT(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(CONVERT(varchar,GETDATE(), 121),'-',''),':',''),'.',''),' ',''),16)

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RockStar

Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:11 AM

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I REALLY appreciate the quick response, exactly what I needed. Wish I had asked earlier. :D

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ChrisM@Work

Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:21 AM

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Here's a couple of ideas.

DECLARE @Now DATETIME
SET @Now = GETDATE()
SELECT @Now

SELECT CAST(datepart(yy, @Now) AS CHAR(4)) + 
	RIGHT('0'+LTRIM(cast(datepart(mm, @Now) as VARCHAR(2))), 2) + 
	RIGHT('0'+LTRIM(cast(datepart(dd, @Now) as VARCHAR(2))), 2) + 
	RIGHT('0'+LTRIM(cast(datepart(hh, @Now) as VARCHAR(2))), 2) + 
	RIGHT('0'+LTRIM(cast(datepart(mm, @Now) as VARCHAR(2))), 2) +
	RIGHT('0'+LTRIM(cast(datepart(ss, @Now) as VARCHAR(2))), 2) +
	RIGHT('00'+LTRIM(cast(datepart(ms, @Now) as VARCHAR(3))), 3)

SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(CONVERT(VARCHAR(28), @Now, 121), '-', ''), ' ', ''), ':', ''), '.', '')

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ChrisM@Work

Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:22 AM

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D'oh!

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Tommy Bollhofer

Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:26 AM

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I believe 14 is what your looking for -

select replace(convert(varchar, getdate(),112),'/','') + replace(convert(varchar, getdate(),14),':','')

Tommy

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