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[martin <martin AT allbsd.com>]

select convert(varchar,getdate(),120)

remember to do any date adding etc. before converting
e.g.
select convert(varchar,dateadd(day,7,getdate()),120)

note : the "120" is the style for how the date is represented.
120 = yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss



James K. Lowden wrote:
> Frediano Ziglio wrote:
>
> > Il giorno ven, 30/09/2005 alle 10.48 -0700, Patrick Gu ha scritto:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am using freetds 0.63 with DBD::ODBC to pull data from MS SQL Server
> > > 2000 to RH AS3. But I am getting the milliseconds for the date columns
> > > in the format of
> > > YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS.SSS, anyone know if there is a quick way in
> > > freetds or DBD::ODBC to set the format?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > Well... it depends. If server return (SMALL)DATETIME column FreeTDS
> > format it to ODBC format (the same you reported) if column is converted
> > by mssql you should check mssql documentation (tsql, cast, convert, set
> > dateformat...). I don't know if DBD::ODBC have options to set date
> > format for DATETIME... MS ODBC driver have an option to use system
> > setting to format data as system settings; FreeTDS don't have such
> > option for simplicity, and it do not even support precision setting on
> > date.
>
>
> Isn't this what the "date format" in locales.conf takes care of?  
>
> --jkl
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