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Unix Timestamp to Datetime Conversion

  • January 21, 2020 at 12:32 pm

    #3716997

    Hi,

    I have a table with one of the column [last seen] nvarchar datatype and data imported from .csv file. Data in the [last seen] column is in Unix Timestamp in MilliSecs format [1575944000000]

    I need to convert it from unix timestamp to datetime format.

     

    Tried changing the datatype of the column from nvarchar to datetime and getting below error:

    - Unable to modify table. Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.

     

    Can someone please give an idea\solution to fix this issue. Thanks in advance.

  • January 21, 2020 at 2:08 pm

    #3717044

    SELECT DATEADD(SECOND,1575944000000/1000,'1970-01-01 00:00:00.000')

    Does this work?

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