How to convert datetime to date only (with time set to 00:00:00.000)

Question

I have a string \'2009-06-24 09:52:43.000\', which I need to insert to a DateTime column of a table.

But I don\'t care about the time, just want to insert it as 2009-06-

Answer 1

A variety of hacks:

• Convert your string to a datetime, then back again using the optional "style" parameter to convert to convert your datetime to a string using just the date portion
• use substring to chop off the end
• round the datetime using floor