A) What is the base datatype for the field? I hope DATETIME.
B) Why? The front end/reporting server can do this so much easier, and end users shouldn't be running ad-hoc code so they should have an interface... somewhere. Even with CSV exports they load in excel and format the column.
C) The only way to do what you want is to turn the datetime into a VARCHAR() for display purposes. You will lose all date functionality, is that what you want?
After answering those, there is a way. It works off the style components in CONVERT()
SELECT
CONVERT( VARCHAR(10), <yourdate>, 101) AS NoLongerDateTimeField
There is no simple way within SQL however to trim the leading zeroes. You'll have to work with constructing the string directly using the MONTH DAY and YEAR functions and concatonating your results.
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