RE: how to insert datetime column into table

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March 26, 2013 at 6:52 am

Steve JP (3/26/2013)

...The issue with the convert is that the 3rd arguement is the style and is used to set the style when you convert from a datetime to a varchar, not the other way around....

It works both ways as documented in BOL under CAST and CONVERT (Transact-SQL).

SELECT DateAsCharacter = CONVERT(VARCHAR(25),GETDATE(),100)

-- 'Mar 26 2013 12:49PM'

SELECT DateAsDate = CONVERT(DATETIME,'Mar 26 2013 12:49PM',100)

-- 2013-03-26 12:49:00.000

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