Date Manipulation with DATEADD/DATEDIFF

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Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2010 10:16 PM

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Garadin (4/7/2010)

Thanks.

Nothing like actually having an article published that lets you see all the things that you forgot to add to it! Hehe

I thought of the same thing with my first article publication. It is a nice learning tool.

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Posted Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:35 AM

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And what about the old CONVERT(VARCHAR(12),GETDATE(),101), will this work in some cases?

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Posted Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:37 AM

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I concur... thanks Seth, great article and I have added these tips and documentation to my notes.

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Hanri Naude

Posted Thursday, April 08, 2010 5:23 AM

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Hi, Great to see all the ways to manipulate dates in SQL.

Here is another way of doing it rather quickly.

SELECT CAST(CAST(GETDATE() AS CHAR(11)) AS DATETIME)

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Hanri Naude

Posted Thursday, April 08, 2010 5:27 AM

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hi,
You can change the first day of the week by using the @@DATEFIRST keyword.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181598(SQL.90).aspx

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SQLJeff (4/8/2010)

And what about the old CONVERT(VARCHAR(12),GETDATE(),101), will this work in some cases?

Most likely... but the problem with that is as I previously stated... it uses twice as much CPU time and takes twice as long duration wise. If you're only working with a handful of rows, you certainly won't notice the difference. BUT, if you're working with many millions of rows like I usually have to, combined with other CPU saving methods, it makes all the difference in the world. Every microsecond counts for the stuff I usually have to do.

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Posted Thursday, April 08, 2010 8:37 AM

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Great article, Seth! Seeing as how I've tried method after method for accomplishing this and I've never been pleased with what I've done, I think this is clever, elegant, and darned handy. Thanks for sharing!

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Hanri Naude (4/8/2010)

hi,
You can change the first day of the week by using the @@DATEFIRST keyword.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181598(SQL.90).aspx

Regards,
Hanri

You can change the day of the week, but as I mentioned in an earlier comment, DATEDIFF is not affected by DATEFIRST settings. I'll add a section about that into the article when I get a moment and can submit that and a few other changes.

Also, as Jeff mentioned, converting to a char/varchar and then back to datetime is considerably slower... but we're talking about fractions of a second per row, so if you're only doing a couple it's not a big deal. For instance, doing anything to GETDATE() to store in a variable... not gonna make much of a difference. But If you need to do it to the column of a table with a million rows, you'll definitely see the difference.

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Posted Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:58 PM

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Is this because SQL Server stores dates as a numeric value? Then CONVERT to VARCHAR() would cause an implicit conversion?

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Posted Friday, April 09, 2010 7:30 AM

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Thank you for the article. This function has always thrown me off on SQL server.

I dreaded dates before this! Thanks again.

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