RE: Char(9) to Time – SQLServerCentral

Lowell

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April 4, 2013 at 8:09 am

#1603572

not sure what you can do yet;

two of the values cannot be directly converted to TIME datatype (the zero and negative values)

msdn says the possible values for TIME datatypes are from 00:00:00.0000000 through 23:59:59.9999999

so no negatives allowed.

With MyCTE (vartime)

AS

(

--SELECT '0' UNION ALL

SELECT '02:19' UNION ALL

--SELECT '-03:06' UNION ALL

SELECT '00:22' UNION ALL

SELECT '00:39'

)

select convert(time,vartime) as newtime

from MyCTE order by 1

Lowell

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