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Re: Formatting a DATE differently using SQL


Chuck,

I like this [but it took me a bit of time to understand it] :-)

I hadn't used INSERT to actually //drop// characters before. A new addition to my SQL bag 'o tricks.

Thanks!

"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."--Tweedledee

On 09/05/2013 3:04 PM, CRPence wrote:
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The following expression is a much more succinct /solution/ for forcing the value of the DATE data type to be cast to the character-string with formatting of MM/DD/YY:

INSERT( CHAR( MIN(dayid), USA ), 7, 2, '')

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