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  • March 8, 2010 at 5:53 am

    #1129942

    CONVERT has the third parameter "style" which can be used when converting datetime to string

    The style parameter can also used when converting float/real, money/smallmoney, xml and binary/varbinary/char/varchar.

    See BOL for more information.

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