I’ve a table where I need to select the posts with the latest date. Problem is that when you get the latest date it also gets it by the hour, meaning that it will try to fetch everything older or equal to the date + time, which is nothing. There for, I need to make it a shortdate so I can fetch everything that was posted on that day.
The following code will set the variabel to the latest date on the table.
DECLARE @latestDate as datetime SET @latestDate = (SELECT postDate from table where postDate = (Select max(postDate) from table))
This will return Jan 20 2009 6:45PM
Then all I need to add to my SELECT is
CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), @latestDate, 101)
This will return 01/20/2009
wow you really help me, thanks
I put the convert directly into my sql statement
SELECT CONVERT(Varchar(11), DateColumnName), COLUMN2, COLUMN3
FROM XYZ
WHERE ConditionHere
I had to use 11 chars because it comes back like this:
Jan 01 2009