SQL Server date format

Question

Hi all,
I realize that this may be a little bit out of the scope of this forum, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
I'm trying to figure out how to select a date in the format mm/dd/yyyy from a SQL Server date/time field. I've browsed the internet on this but haven't found any quick/easy way to do this. Can anyone please help me out here?
Thanks!
-Stephen Spalding
Web Developer
Graybar

Answer 1

Hi Stephen,
You can use the convert function in sql to change the format of the date time field.
select convert(varchar(13),getdate(),101) gives u the current date in mm/dd/yyyy format.
If you want that in java you can use the SimpleDateFormat class to change the format.
import java.text.Format;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
Date currentDate = null;
Format formatter = null;
String date = "";
currentDate = new Date();
formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
date = formatter.format(currentDate);
This should give in the mm/dd/yyyy format.
But both the results will be in String Format and not datetime.
Hope this will be useful to you.
Regards
Prakash